Otto von Bismarck - III: Iron and Blood - Extra History
Added 2017-10-27 17:00:05 +0000 UTCWith the government on the brink of collapse, a lesser man would give up, but Bismarck? Bismarck always has a plan.
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Extra History
2017-11-06 22:46:02 +0000 UTCScratch one for lies
Pavel Yakushevich
2017-11-04 15:47:57 +0000 UTCCan you do video about Carl Gustav Emil Mannerheim?
Kyöstilä
2017-11-02 13:29:08 +0000 UTCNice
2017-10-30 19:04:51 +0000 UTCI fixed the link. I apologize for not double checking myself before.
Sudarshan Ramani
2017-10-29 20:55:13 +0000 UTCIf Plutarch were still around, I could see him doing a Lives on Churchill and Bismarck!
Extra History
2017-10-29 20:39:30 +0000 UTCIs anybody getting any parallels with a certain Winston Spencer Churchill here? Wilderness years, glorious restitution, opportunism, gargantuan appetites etc.,
Huw Rollinson
2017-10-29 20:16:00 +0000 UTCAnd some of them are starting to be good plans!
Extra History
2017-10-29 20:08:29 +0000 UTCThanks for the correction about the quotation! (The link doesn't work for me but I'll trust you on it). As for Bismarck always has a plan, I don't think anyone's life ever fits neatly and entirely into a single joke or story, but at EH that's sometimes what we do in order to get people engaged with the content. And I do think that "Bismarck always has a plan" as a tagline does a good job of conveying the type of person he is: even if there are moments in his life (especially his wastrel early life) when he doesn't have a plan, as a statesman and political figure he's most famous for being this massive schemer who's constantly got his eye on the diplomatic chess board.
Extra History
2017-10-29 20:08:18 +0000 UTCBismark had a plan. Bismark always has ever had a plan. 🤣
Simone Spinozzi
2017-10-29 11:14:49 +0000 UTCThis is a good episode. Two points: 1) The famous quotation "Prussia was an army with a state. in which it was merely quartered, so to speak" is not by Voltaire, or by Comte de Mirabeau, but by George Heinrich von Berenhorst, one of Frederick the Great's own adjutants. Volker Ullrich, the historian mentions it in this link, of his review of Christopher Clark's The Iron Kingdom ( <a href="http://www.signandsight.com/features/1341.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.signandsight.com/features/1341.html</a> ) 2) While I have no problems with the basic outline, I feel that there's an odds with the events we see unfold. For instance, "Bismarck always has a plan" goes against the role of luck we see in his career. Like if the King didn't call him from his exile to Russia, what was Bismarck's plan then? And likewise, "Bismarck going from radical to pragmatic" goes against the fact that we see Bismarck constantly violating norms, smoking a cigar in a meeting with German Confederation, emotionally cajoling the King, breaking up doors...abusing loopholes and so on. There's a disconnect between how the events appear and how it's editorialized. That might be a deliberate and ironic effect of the narration but it does feel odd. Jonathan Steinberg often pointed out that Bismarck kept talking about politics as an art of the compromise but he himself never compromised and he always got his way.
Sudarshan Ramani
2017-10-29 03:27:21 +0000 UTCBut they're buds nooooow!
Extra History
2017-10-29 00:08:42 +0000 UTCGlad you're enjoying it!
Extra History
2017-10-29 00:04:56 +0000 UTCIt's already on YouTube but oy, yeah, that was a mistake.
Extra History
2017-10-29 00:04:51 +0000 UTCDangit! That's on me. David checked that flag with me and I got the wrong one. My bad. -Soraya
Extra History
2017-10-29 00:04:42 +0000 UTCSorry, for being that guy, but I'm that guy who is also of Hungarian descent: you got the Austrian flag wrong. Throughout the episode you show the Austro-Hungarian flag, and Austria-Hungary only existed from 1867 onwards. Before that, it was the Austrian Empire, whose emperor just happened to be also king of Hungary (and of Bohemia and a bunch of other stuff). Apart from that I love this series!
Matt Lakits doesn't have the mental energy to update their Patreon name anymore, but still listens to every episode avidly!
2017-10-28 19:48:36 +0000 UTC18th Century? Surely you mean 19th. Plz change this before it goes on YouTube.
Nico Bruin
2017-10-28 17:28:22 +0000 UTCI frikkin love this series, Bismarck is my favourite statesman ever!
Markus Engelhardt
2017-10-28 10:00:08 +0000 UTCI'm with Scott on this one and will blame James.
Nuno Nogueira
2017-10-27 21:58:03 +0000 UTCDon’t trust them France! 20 odd years from now those Germans will make you look like fools!
Sean Sarff
2017-10-27 20:25:06 +0000 UTCIf Shakespeare gets his own Extra History Series One Day will Professor Dan be able to say things like, [ah-hem!] "O for a Muse of Fire that would ascend the brightest Heaven of Invention, a Kingdom for a Stage, Princes to Act, and Monarchs to behold the swelling Scene."[I did spot the Shakespeare quote in One Episode of the Great Northern War.]
Martin Verran
2017-10-27 17:45:06 +0000 UTCMe too when I first saw it! That Walpole. He's infested our minds.
Extra History
2017-10-27 17:23:42 +0000 UTCFor a sec, I thought Voltaire was Walpole!
Joo-Hwan Jun
2017-10-27 17:16:04 +0000 UTCIf anyone could capture the dual "jerk, but jerk with a mission" story of Bismarck in a play, it's Shakespeare.
Extra History
2017-10-27 17:10:45 +0000 UTCI'm starting to Think it's almost a Pity that William Shakespeare wasn't around to write a Play about Bismarck.
Martin Verran
2017-10-27 17:00:45 +0000 UTC
