Jon Gabriel wrote:
>
> >From: "Alberto Monteiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Re: Scouted: reconstruction then and now
> >Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 13:37:40 -0000
> >
> >
> >David Hobby wrote:
> > >
> > >> Germany had *no* democratic traditions at all
> > >
> > > None? Not even whatever filtered in from Switzerland?
> > >
> >Switzerland is not Germany :-P
> >
> > > And what of the failed revolution of 1848?
> >
> >I must have fluked this History Class. What happened in 1848?
> >
>
> I'm sure Google can cough up some links on this, but here's the situation in
> a nutshell: Inspired by America's success with democracy, the liberal,
> nationalist middle class started a revolution in Prussia and some other,
> more minor German states. A National Assembly was convened. The liberals
> wanted to form a democratic 'German Confederacy', but conservative
> reactionaries squashed it. More than 4000 liberals fled to political
> asylum in America.
Sounds good. My impression was that the revolutionaries
were O.K. at overthrowing the existing government, but incapable
of governing on their own. (Sound familiar?) So they got booted
out too.
---David
My great-great-grandfather Kleinecke came to America in 1848, so
I always wanted to do some more research...
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