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From 1871 until 1890 Bismarck presided as Chancellor over the destinies of the German Empire. His major concern during these years was to establish and maintain a social and political system that would preserve Germany’s military strength and thus safeguard her from aggression and internal upheaval. For this purpose he sought to absorb the military class of Germany, the Prussian Junkers, into the national German state, and yet keep them exclusive, Prussian, and military, as the central force in the German army.
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© 1959 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Young, H.F. (1959). The New Course. In: Maximilian Harden. International Scholars Forum, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-2457-5_5
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