History
The first Reich, known as the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation reigned from 962 to 1806 until Franz II laid the imperial crown. After the liberation war against France in 1815 German Confederation replaced the old Reich. Otto von Bismarck dissolved the German confederation and replaced by the north including 17 small states. In 1871, the German Empire was founded again. Bismarck became the chancellor and was known as "Iron Chancellor" introduced the most progressive welfare legislation in whole Europe. (5, 6)
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“History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“Perhaps universal history is the history of the diverse intonation of some metaphors.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)
“They are a sort of post-house,where the Fates
Change horses, making history change its tune,
Then spur away o’er empires and o’er states,
Leaving at last not much besides chronology,
Excepting the post-obits of theology.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)