YOUR ESSAYS

Really enjoyed reading your essays on Bismarck and how you explained all those pesky alliances and treaties so well without losing sight of their relevance by getting lost in the detail.  Equally liked the fact you had obviously done some independent research and your use of quotes was appropriate.  Remember that Bismarck created a vacuum in German politics that was always going to be impossible to fill.  Also. he had left the Germans with a fledgling but feeble democracy and a yearning for a strong leader - they transferred this trust in Kaiser Wilhelm II which proved misplaced and this need for a leader (Fuhrer) was exploited later on by Adolf Hitler.

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