The twentieth century was one of the most violent
and destructive periods in history.
Millions upon millions
 
had perished
and the center of the hostility was Germany,
yet over the course of the two world wars
and the cold ward, the goverment in Berlin underwent
fundamental changes that continued to shape the behavior
and the geopolitical mindset
of german policy makers.
 
At the height of World War two Prime Minister Winstor Churchill
in his address to the British Parliament in 1943
said that prussia was the source of a
recurring pestilence and that
its destruction was a symbolic necessity. Churchill was 'dead right'.
The Prussian holdings formed the core of Germany
and following the unification of the german state in
 
1871, which we covered in a separate report,
the rational but conservative rulers created they power house in the center of europe
yet since germany was wealthy
and the prussia adminsitration was  proficient
the country never experience the bourgeoisian revolutions
that neighboring france
netherlands and the U.K. had to comethrough
this meant that the transformational processes
that swept through western
Europe in 19th century
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
