History Rage

52. Prussia was NOT Evil with Katja Hoyer


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This week we are joined by Historian, Research Fellow at Kings College London, Washington Post columnist and author of “Blood and Iron – the rise and fall of the German Empire”, Katja Hoyer who kicks off Series 6 raging that PRUSSIA IS NOT EVIL

We’ll be talking about Prussia’s reputation as a militaristic warmonger, the fact that wider Germany was also complicit in wars all the way back to Waterloo and also potatoes, we should never forget potatoes..

If you’d like to know more about this subject, then you can start by buying the excellent book “Blood and Iron” from the History Rage Bookshop. You can, and should, also Katja on Twitter @hoyer_kat

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