![]() ![]() Whereas mid-century historiography portrayed Prussia as simply the home of German militarism and authoritarianism-one is reminded that Robert Ergang's biography of Frederick William I from these years was titled Potsdam Führer(1941)-since the 1980s Prussia has come to be seen less one-dimensionally. ![]() Historians have paid a bit more attention to Prussia, of course. "Prussia," though legally erased a half-century earlier, still remained in German memory, but no one felt attached to a Prussian identity, as a Bavarian or Saxon would about his or her land. Before the referendum, though, some briefly speculated that a merged state perhaps should be called "Prussia" rather than "Brandenburg-Berlin." The idea never took flight, and the fact that it did not is suggestive about Germany attitudes to Prussia now. Shortly after German reunification, the electorates of Berlin and Brandenburg rejected a proposed fusion of the two states. Reviewed by Roland Spickermann (Department of History, University of Texas-Permian Basin) Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947.Ĭambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006.
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