The ENTIRE History of Bismarck Explained

In 1866, a student fired five shots at the man who was about to create Germany. Two hit him and bounced off a rib. This is the full story of Otto von Bismarck: a broke, hard-drinking gambler who failed at every job he tried, survived a duel over a cigar and an assassination attempt on Berlin's main boulevard, and became the most powerful man in Europe. He took forty German states and fought three wars in seven years to forge them into one empire, built the world's first national pension and health insurance to buy the workers' loyalty, and kept the peace in Europe for twenty years, until a young Kaiser threw him out. Animated on a satellite map of Europe, with the borders as they really were. CHAPTERS 0:00 Berlin, 1866: five shots 0:36 Young Bismarck (1815) 5:15 A Man Without a Plan (1836) 10:02 The Junker with a Shotgun (1848) 13:04 The Cigar and the Pistol (1851) 16:51 Iron and Blood (1862) 23:57 The Chancellor (1871) 28:27 Dropping the Pilot (1890) SOURCES Otto von Bismarck, Gedanken und Erinnerungen (1898) and letters Jonathan Steinberg, Bismarck: A Life (Oxford University Press, 2011) Lothar Gall, Bismarck: Der weiße Revolutionär (1980) Otto Pflanze, Bismarck and the Development of Germany (1990) Henry Kissinger, "The White Revolutionary: Reflections on Bismarck", Daedalus 97 (1968) Deutsche Biographie (NDB); Deutsches Historisches Museum (LeMO); Otto-von-Bismarck-Stiftung IMAGES Historical images via Wikimedia Commons (public domain), including works by Anton von Werner, Georg Bleibtreu, Wilhelm Camphausen, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Heinrich von Angeli and John Tenniel ("Dropping the Pilot", Punch, 1890), and photographs by Elise Wolff (1859) and Jacob Pilartz (1890). Satellite imagery: NASA Blue Marble (public domain). Historical borders: OpenHistoricalMap (CC0), partly derived from © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); coastlines: Natural Earth. MUSIC "Crypto", "Deliberate Thought", "Lightless Dawn", "Clean Soul", "Gathering Darkness", "Stormfront", "Oppressive Gloom", "Heroic Age", "Volatile Reaction", "Five Armies" and "Anguish" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Classical recordings (public domain / CC0, via Wikimedia Commons): Handel, Water Music (United States Marine Band Chamber Orchestra); Bach, Air (United States Air Force Strings); Mozart, Symphony No. 40 (Musopen Symphony); Satie, Gymnopédie No. 1 (Michael Laucke); Charpentier, Te Deum, Prelude (Ian Dollins / Musopen). #Bismarck #History #Germany