1. Bismarck's Domestic Policy: 1871-1890
... Hessian, or Württembergian nationalism. This sense of unity, however, proved more fragile than wartime enthusiasm and the joy of victory suggested. The Junkers: One group critical of the new settlement was the Prussian landed aristocracy (to which Bismarck belonged). Although the Junkers, who dominated Prussia itself, had strong influence on national politics as well, they only gradually ... reconciled themselves with Bismarck's foundation of the new state; they always considered universal suffrage for the Reichstag a dangerous precedent for further democratization and -- at least initi...
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