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Johann Gustav Droysen: Speech to the Frankfurt Assembly
Johann Gustav Droysen contrasts prussia and Austria saying That Pruissia is powerful and needs to be the face of the new united German while Austria is too weak to do it -
Friedrich Wilhelm IV, King of Prussia: Proclamation of 1849
Friedrich Wilhelm gives a bunch of reasons why he doesn't want to accept the crown from the assembly in Frankfurt including that they don't have the right to do so and that he wouldn't accept a constitution which could not be reconciled with the rights of the german states. -
Otto von Bismarck: Letter to Minister von Manteuffel
Bismark writes a letter to Minister von Manteuffel stating that prussia and austria cannot co exist peacefully, that austria either needs to join prussia or forever be lost and destroyed and that they're fighting for their existence -
Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke
Germany and prussia went to war and this document stated that the war against prussia wans't for anything else besides establishing power and that Germany officially had Prussian dominance -
Otto von Bismarck
Another document from BIsmark stating that during the war against austria that prussia held back and avoided hurting astria to badly because he didn't want any bad feelings left behind and he wanted the chance of being able to work together to still exist -
The Imperial Proclamation
A document by King Wilhelm stating that he had adequate arrangements made so he could accept the title of king and that he had many people call upon him to assume crown of Emperor. He also listed a bunch of duties he wold fulfill as king ex) protecting the indepence of Germany