Western Civilization II / Unit 8 WC2 0726 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Wartburg 1817 and the Reaction: Nationalism Policed
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The idea
German nationalists gathered at the Wartburg in eighteen seventeen under the black, red and gold. In eighteen nineteen a nationalist student murdered a conservative playwright, and Austria answered with speech laws and secret police: the Carlsbad Decrees, which the witness names.
In practice
The flag became official a century later.
Where people slip
Wartburg is the anchor's; Carlsbad is the witness's.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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