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Article: Remember Prussia?(Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947)(Book review)
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- The National Interest
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- September 1, 2007
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Christopher Clark, Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2006), 800 pp., $35.00.
RUDYARD KIPLING'S 1897 poem Recessional warned of the transience of greatness with the lines "all our pomp of yesterday/Is one with Nineveh and Tyre." While imperial de cline marks a recurring cycle, rarely have nations truly landed in history's graveyard. Many nations--partitioned like Poland or dominated by foreign empires for centuries like Serbia--eventually regained their independence. Prussia, however, met the fate of which Kipling warned. Its official dissolution in 1947 ratified the consequences of defeat and ethnic cleansing ...
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Article: Prussia
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...Prussia , Ger. Preussen, former state, the largest ... of the Weimar Republic (1919-33), Prussia occupied more than half of all Germany ... provinces: Berlin, Brandenburg , East Prussia (separated after 1919 from the rest of ...
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