Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) / German Unification 

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Bismarck: *dies* Bismarck some decades later: i am ship

Otto von Bismarck not only spoke German, but French, English, Italian, Russian and Polish were all languages that he spoke fluently.

You gotta feel sorry for the guy. He spent nearly his whole life making Germany into a great nation, only for the future leadership to make everything worse.

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Bismarck always has a plan

People around me: Lol, swag Me: *_I must unite the German people under one flag_*

Otto von Bismarck is one of the greatest German People that ever lived!

He would not comprimise for anything other than a united Germany. The Francs had France, the Russians had Russia, the Austrians had Austria...it was only fair that the Germans had Germany. I love him.

I wonder what Hitler and Bismarck would have thought of each other.

Otto von Bismarck was a fucking Hero. Sad that so many wrong people lead his great country

What famous figure in history do you want to see next?

oh WOW! Bismarck! my favorite leader in German history! thanks Simple History!

you forgot alsace-lorrine part in formation of german empire. alsace lorrine was also a german speaking province that was annexed by france from holy roman empire

Bismarck: dies Some 50 years later: comes back as a ship. Bismarck always has a plan

147 years ago today, the Empire, was united.

Otto Von Bismark is one of my favourites ever since i read about him in high school. He like,"help us with this war france and we will give you coal mines." france was like "pinky promise?" "sure" after the war he was like " what coal mines?" Thats how he got the german territories back from france. What a legend!!!

you forgot the Dreikaiserabkommen he did it was a bond between russia germany and austria his aim was to isolate france from the other countrys and to achive stability in europe thats one reason, why he never had interest in colonies

Otto Von Bismarck: I have a plan....I always have a plan.

prussians invented the needle gun. the first gun that could be loaded from the back of the barrel rather then the front which allowed them to reload lying down. that helped them win all those wars. along with revolutionary military disapline that is widly used today.

Germany: earliest health care system under a conservative government in the 1880s. America: Hurr Durr how do i health care?

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Me: *sees merkel* Also me: *_HOW DARE YOU STAND WHERE HE STOOD_* ???

I am really that awesome

Ahhh bismarck, a great prussian, german and a great battleship.

He was the best Politician in the World XD

Wait............ THIS DUDE WAS BORN ON APRIL FOOLS?!?!?!?!?!???!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!!!!?!

So proud of my Prussian heritage.

pike helmets (Edit) why did this get so many likes, Jesus

Thanks! We studied this today at History Class so this helps a lot!! Great Videos!!

I did not know a lot about bismarck. Thank you so much for your videos

Bismarck was a remarkable historic character who truly deserved the title of "Great".

Interesting video topic I never knew that much about Germany till now.

Thanks for making this. Its very helpful for my essay on the unification of Germany. Well explained 👏

Bismarck did so much good for Germany. He is the Fahther of Germany

I love history and your videos, keep up the good work!

You never fail to impress me, these videos are legendary.

Lol I've learned more watching this short vid of history then in my history class😂😂

When I get old emough, My goal is to reunite the German Empire

I am loving this channel.

During his youth, there was an assassination attempt made on Bismarck, where the assassin fired 5 shots from a pistol. All struck Bismarck. When his servant removed his coat, he found that all the shots had bounced off his ribs or grazed him, at which point Bismarck put on sunglasses, said " *Iron Chancellor* ", and walked away. (I made that last part up, but, y'know, Iron Chancellor)

Do a video about Carl Gustaf Emil *Mannerheim*

Ik this is 6 years late, but thanks for all your videos man. I’ve watched many of them in my free time and I learn a lot from them both in and out of school. Thanks again.

I love learning history from this channel

just imagine Bismarck surviving long enough to witness the start of WW1

Once again great work guys :)

This video was very helpful to me thanks for making it

Greetings from Germany! It shows you a whole story of an event in 2 minutes or 5 minutes video.. This is very amazing (Subscribed and Liked already). :-)

What an intelligent personality he was..... Love from India to all people VASUDHAIVA KUTUMBAKAM 🙏

Bismarck was one of the most powerful people of his time because of his adherence to realpolitik, he didn't have a single ideology. He sided with groups which suited him the most. He used the conservatives to have the liberals and socialists banned and the reactionaries/nationalist to gear up the country for war. While doing so, he also started the world's first welfare state to take away support from socialists. And started the kulturkampf, which removed conservative religious power and replaced by him. He even had a long lasting effect even on his tiny acts. He once made legal representations for a certain poor German pharmacists to be freed as he was innocent from conspiracy to overthrow the conservative Spanish monarchy. Bismarck knew the man was a liberal, the man would move to the Spanish East Indies and marry a minor liberal Spanish noble. Their descendants would later be known as Zobel y Ayala and would still be one of the richest families in the Philippines. He really was a brilliant guy, only seconded by Merkel.

Awesome video

Hi i love ur vids, keep up the good work!

A great and truly underrated person in the history of the world, his influence on the two last centuries events are huge

Bismarck: *Dies* *Several Decades go by* Bismarck Ship: I’ve been Reincarnated but as a Battleship

This helped me a lot thanks👍👍

Thank you, this was really informative, as always :D

Otto von Bismark was so liked by Adlof Hitler that he named his super ship the "Bismark" after him.

Evolution of Bismarck 1815-1898: general 1940's: battleship 2018: a n i m e g i r l

nice vid bro i like it

great video

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like your videos

Best episode yet!

Nice for a review thanks

You have otto von bismark blinking A TON

You pronounced von Bismarck like van Bismarck and that's a huge difference ! To be exact, it's the difference between being royal or just Dutch ! :-D But well done at pronouncing Schönhausen ! 0:23

Helpfull thanks

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I wish we could turn back time to the good old days. Make Deutschland Great Again

"Born at age of musket (1815 ),died at the age of machine gun" (1898). if you understand statement ,do like or dislike your choice ,man

Very nice

I love all your videos they a Good em all a Good videos

Hey Simple History can you make more videos on ww2?

otto von bismark once said "Jena (a catostrophic military defeat for the prussians) came twenty years after the death of Frederick the Great; the crash will come twenty years after my departure if things go on like this." twenty years later, world war one happened

I learn more from these 3 min videos than my whole school year.

you are brilliant

Otto von Bismarck really was a diplomatic genius. He made Germany so unimaginably powerful back then. Unfortunately there was noone, who could have replaced him.

Bismarck had a plan. Bismarck always had a plan.

Nice video! And can u do a video about 1WW in slowenia the battle line that run on a river named soša is realy famus

Great vid! World History 2 says hello!

We need him again ❤😍

He was such a great person.

You know what I love about Simple History? You guys respond and care about your fans comments! :D

3 years of history lessons at school got just so comprehensively concentrated that neither me, nor my classmates were falling asleep.

When your born on April 1st, You know things are not going to end well.

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Looking at his appearance in that spiked helmet I always wondered if he was in the military. Apparently he was when did national service but it was for a short time. Interestingly I believe he was also in a dueling society when he was in college. Another interesting thing was the Prussians sent observers to the American Civil War where they observed what was going on and they learned to utilize the telegraph and the train systems to coordinate their movements.

Simple History Can you do “Frederick the Great (Thursday, January 24, 1712-Thursday, August 17, 1786)” please?

Could you do a video on the battle of the bulge?

I wish Europe had a new Bismarck

The "iron chancellor" came from his speach on a parliamentary crisis over army reforms, which was named the "blood and iron speach", as he said something along the lines of "the big questions of the day are not answered by speeches and royal decrees, but by iron and blood".

i loved it, can you do a brief history of the constitution of japan after the second world war and why still intact without any reform or amendment?

Ah, Otto Von Bismarck. Or the living example of how “you can’t always tell the character of a man from the character of his youth” A brilliant man who wasn’t a fan of school, getting into many fuels of honor, only being injured once (his foe’s rapier broke I tell ya!) and surviving an Assassination attempt (all the shots either grazed him or bounced off the Iron Chancelor.)

Bismarck was great leader of Germany and he made the most powerfull country in Europe. Only Germans from future destroyed his work.

We all know how hard it is to check correct pronounciation when making a video for RU-vid and pronounce the: "F" sound instead of the: "V" sound. True effort!

Bismarck also scolded Wilhelm II that 20 years from Bismarck's departure, the German Empire would be no more. Sure enough, Germany was carved up in 1918. He also predicted that a massive European war would erupt because of some damned thing in the Balkans. I'd say that the guy can see the future.

He was a great German figure that's for sure.

Can you do the Korean War?

Like the choice of music. Beethoven is a good selection when talking about German History.

Have you done the battle of Waterloo? If you haven't can you please do it?