Prussia was almost the only major European power that did not finance its rise with colonies and the slave trade. Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, Holland, Britain to the west, Russia to the east – they were imperial powers from the start. Prussia went a different way.
What was valuable in the German Reich after 1871 was Prussian. Where the Reich rejected this legacy, where it pursued grandiosity instead of modesty, anti-Semitism and anti-Catholicism instead of tolerance, imperialism and populism instead of internal reform, it was worse than worthless.
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