1. Fontane’s Germany

2. Otto von Bismarck – Germany’s first Kanzler – 1871-1890
Founder of the German Reich

3. ‘dropping the pilot’
Kaiser Wilhelm II dismisses Iron Duke Bismarck
In 1890

4. ‘something must be done
to close up this volcano’

5. Kaiser Wilhelm I – 1871
Emperor of Prussia since 1861,
becomes Emperor of unified
German Reich
(Palace of Versailles)

6. The new capital – from 1789
‘Athens on the Spree’

7. Optimistic industrialism - 1898

8. The Siegessäule – Victory Column
moved (and made taller) by Nazis in 1938
Unveiled 1873, anniversary of Battle of Sedan,
First as a memorial to wars of unification,
Denmark 1864
Franco-Prussian War

9. Berlin and the military [wsa-b.de]