How did the Germans go from being an irrelevant weakling nation that got regularly humiliated by French, Poles, Swedes and Russians from the 1200s to the mid 1800s, to being the most feared European nation between 1866 and 1945?
Weaponized autism
>>3362760
Unification
>>3362760
can someone link the /int/ threads with nietzsche describing commenting on germanics destroying europe repeatedly?
Society change from inclusiveness to exclusiveness
>>3362760
By becoming Germans?
>>3363518
Nah
The German people exists since the late 9th century, when Franks divided in two different people (French on the West and Germans on the East)
Part of it was that the "Second Industrial Revolution" benefited Germany more than any other country in Europe. I'll find my source.
>>3362760
1871 maybe? i've heard the french were quite respected at the time and they really thought the germans were garbage, and they got fucked hard
Industrial Revolution/ unification of German states