Seeing Germany’s past through a “global lens” revises it
So claims David Blackbourn in “Germany in the World”. He is largely vindicated
The Thirty Years War of 1618 to 1648 killed up to 7m soldiers and civilians. Parts of the German lands over which Europe’s armies fought lost more than half their populations. If there was a consolation it was the flight of some extraordinary Germans from the horror, among them Samuel Hartlib and Athanasius Kircher.
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