Charlemagne of Aachen vs Otto of Saxony? Charlemagne every time. (The Nazis loathed Karl der Größe, of course).
What Britain needs to understand about the profound and ancient divisions in Germany https://www.newstatesman.com/world/europe/2017/09/what-britain-needs-understand-about-profound-and-ancient-divisions-germany … via @hbdchickpic.twitter.com/lrrPS4r8iD
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Make Austrasia Great Again
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Extrapolate this to all of Europe and you have why the EU has been doomed since the ink dried on the Maastricht treaty.
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It'll be slow and probably painful, but Europe is too diverse a continent to be happy under one banner.
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Which is why EU is a balancing act between nation states and an amalgam of them. English political crudity fails to understand this.
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I’ll be damned. The News Statesman highlighting the folly of reunification.
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Kinda historically mutual (like a slightly off Thomas Mann novel). Bismarck iffy about the Catholic German states.
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And that ginormous Niederwalddenkmal actually looks out over German but Catholic territory. So Watch Whom on the Rhine?
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He flattens out and misrepesents the historical diversity of E. Germany - Brandenburg might fit this idea, but the rest of the East doesn't
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Saxony&Thuringia were major intellectual and economic centers before they were trapped in E. Germany, as was the "lost province" of Silesia
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Profound ancient divisions like culture & the importance of different historical memories are ignored when we're all supposed to be the same
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Might suggest same fault (line) with Sykes-Picot Agreement !!..
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Bismarck: a Prussian junker civilised by Rhinelanders.
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