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Word: niggratz (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sadowa or Königgratz (1866): battle in the Austro-Prussian War which ended the old German Confederation (composed of both German and Austrian states) and resulted in the North German Confederation, the nucleus of the German Empire. Sedan (1870): battle in the Franco-Prussian War in which the Emperor Napoleon III was taken prisoner. There was declared to be a "vacancy of power" in France, and the third Republic (the present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Notes, Jul. 20, 1925 | 7/20/1925 | See Source »

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