Life in the German Empire was more than pickelhaube and nationalism, says historian Hedwig Richter.
Because the years from 1871 to 1918 were also a time of modernization, democratization and the women's movement.
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Life in the Empire: Between Pickelhaube and Awakening - Germany under the Hohenzollern
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So what was life like between the pimple hood and the start?
How do we see this time today, 150 years after the founding of the empire?
And what can we learn for our present from the contradictions of the German Empire?
SPIEGEL editor Eva-Maria Schnurr talks about this with historian Hedwig Richter.
The occasion is a new issue of the magazine SPIEGEL Geschichte.
The theme is "Life in the Empire".
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