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The Rise and Fall of Prussia (Video)

Aunt Spiker

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I'm doing research for a novel set in various countries of Europe and the US between the years 1892 and 1953.

It's been a slow research type project - the scope of the mere research has been quite intense. Regardless, it's been fun and I think I've decided to set a portion of the story and backstory in Prussia.

In the process of logging which territories were forgone, renamed, reallocated - and when - I found this video.



If you're really curious - I'm using a program called 'Aeon Timeline' to log moments in history and build up a timeline of events around which my story will be set.
 
Aunt Spiker said:
I'm doing research for a novel set in various countries of Europe and the US between the years 1892 and 1953.

It's been a slow research type project - the scope of the mere research has been quite intense. Regardless, it's been fun and I think I've decided to set a portion of the story and backstory in Prussia.

In the process of logging which territories were forgone, renamed, reallocated - and when - I found this video.



If you're really curious - I'm using a program called 'Aeon Timeline' to log moments in history and build up a timeline of events around which my story will be set.
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You might want to read the book 1913. It is short but produces a wonderful feel of the year in Germany.
 
It's interesting to me. My maternal side supposedly migrated north from Switzerland with the Teutonic knights in the 13th century. By the early 1600s they had the grant of a fief/ castle at Jamburg from the king of Sweden; by the mid 1700s they were burgermeisters and heads of the great guild at Reval; by the mid 1800s they had migrated west to Berlin and Bremen where as Prussian generals they eventually engineered the invasion of France via Belgium in 1914. In 1907 my great-grandfather landed in the US to infiltrate American military intelligence; his cousin arrived in 1914, as the largest stockholder of Hamburg America line, to infiltrate American banking. It's a pretty interesting story.

I'm gonna take a look at 1913. Artists rendition:

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betuadollar said:
It's interesting to me. My maternal side supposedly migrated north from Switzerland with the Teutonic knights in the 13th century. By the early 1600s they had the grant of a fief/ castle at Jamburg from the king of Sweden; by the mid 1700s they were burgermeisters and heads of the great guild at Reval; by the mid 1800s they had migrated west to Berlin and Bremen where as Prussian generals they eventually engineered the invasion of France via Belgium in 1914. In 1907 my great-grandfather landed in the US to infiltrate American military intelligence; his cousin arrived in 1914, as the largest stockholder of Hamburg America line, to infiltrate American banking. It's a pretty interesting story.

I'm gonna take a look at 1913. Artists rendition:

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Fascinating. I think it's highly intriguing as to how so many people in the past relocated cross countries where many people I know have never left their home country.

joG said:
You might want to read the book 1913. It is short but produces a wonderful feel of the year in Germany.
Click to expand...

I'll toss it onto my research pile- thanks.
 
Aunt Spiker said:
I'm doing research for a novel set in various countries of Europe and the US between the years 1892 and 1953.

It's been a slow research type project - the scope of the mere research has been quite intense. Regardless, it's been fun and I think I've decided to set a portion of the story and backstory in Prussia.

In the process of logging which territories were forgone, renamed, reallocated - and when - I found this video.



If you're really curious - I'm using a program called 'Aeon Timeline' to log moments in history and build up a timeline of events around which my story will be set.
Click to expand...



Read Ken Follets book the fall of giants. 1st in a trilogy but that book in particular really highlights the fractures in Europe.
 
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