"An Army with a State" - Prussian Militarisation in the 18th Century

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  @BrandonF · 3 years ago (edited) · pinned

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  @vancearmor9046 · 1 month ago

  18th century Prussia. &nbsp;Where an army had a state.<br><br>21st century America. &nbsp;Where intelligence agencies have a government.

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  @pleasedontmakememakeupanalias · 3 years ago

  for the record, as a german i find your german accent to be very funny. don&apos;t stop it. you are 1 of only 3 creators where i dont skip the ads because they make me laugh every time

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  @wcg19891 · 1 year ago

  The irony of Prussian militarism is that its climax and end occurred under a leader from Austria who led a party that was first created in Bavaria.

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  @felixmuller7551 · 3 years ago

  The only thins that remain of prussia today are the stereotyps that germans are always strict,dont laugh,always on time and overall very disciplined.All these ideas came from prussias military

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  @bubbasbigblast8563 · 3 years ago (edited)

  Prussia is a weird state to talk about, because its best known leader basically led the state to near ruin, as you said. It was really Friedrich Wilhelm I who started the &quot;army with a state,&quot; with his schools in garrisons and &quot;Gehorsam und Treue&quot; priests, and then Prussia aggressively remilitarized its society after Napoleon basically traumatized the entire nation, which is where the phrase became unsettlingly true as Prussia started making plans to basically create its own version of the attempted Swedish Empire which Prussia had, somewhat ironically, helped instead destroy.

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  @karpi470 · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1bkb0Ff8fM&amp;t=485">8:05</a> The German word for mercenary is &quot;Söldner&quot;, which means &quot;Someone that receives Sold&quot;. &quot;Sold&quot; is a term for salaries/compensation given to Soldiers, in fact, that&apos;s where the (later) term is derived from. The German term for Soldier is &quot;Soldat&quot;, which also stems from this source.

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  @1987MartinT · 3 years ago

  Soldier 1: &quot;I&apos;m a volunteer in the Prussian army.&quot;<br>Soldier 2: &quot;Oh, you volunteered. How patriotic of you.&quot;<br>Soldier 1: &quot;No. I didn&apos;t volunteer. I was volunteered. I ain&apos;t even Prussian, so it&apos;s not patriotic.&quot;

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  @gaslightstudiosrebooted3432 · 3 years ago

  Prussia was almost annihilated during the SYW. Hell, Frederick nearly killed himself after the disaster at Kunersdorf. Out of 50-60k men the day of the battle, less than 10k returned to the colors a week later. And as you said, Prussia&apos;s lack of success in the early Napoleonic Wars is due to resting on unearned laurels and seriously outmoded tactics.

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  @MannoMax · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1bkb0Ff8fM&amp;t=1290">21:30</a> One thing that became really big during that time were uniforms. Tram drivers, railway men, firefighters, all of them wanted their own uniforms, because it was &quot;en vouge&quot;, and even a lot of the up and coming factories decided on uniform work clothes for their workers, which is where company uniforms come from.

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  @podemosurss8316 · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1bkb0Ff8fM&amp;t=1749">29:09</a> It was also a thing in the Spanish Army on both the XVIII and XIX century, in fact the Spanish king Carlos III (contemporary and friend with Friedrich der Grosse) hired Prussian composers and trainers for his military reforms.

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  @AdmiralBonetoPick · 2 years ago

  Whereas some states possess a health service, the British NHS possesses a state.

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