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History of the Germans from the Middle Ages to Reunification

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  1. Ep. 99: Colonisation of the East(700-1200) - Follow the Money

    This week we stumble into the next imperial succession where the Saxons are again standing on the side lines. On paper the new guy, Konrad II was a man after their own heart, fearsome warrior untroubled by bookish learning, but he was also

  2. Ep. 98: Colonisation of the East(700-1200) - The Rift between Emperor and Saxon Princes

    This week we are talking about the rift that is opening up between the Saxons and the Empire. For 80 years Saxony had been the centre of imperial power and the Ottonians had been supportive of the Saxon nobles’ policy vis-à-vis the Wends an

  3. Ep. 97: Colonisation of the East(700-1200) - Rebellion!

    Now that we know the lay of the land it is time for action, and quite some action it will be. The Wends, the pagan Slavic peoples living east of the Elbe who found themselves ever more squeezed by their now Christian neighbours wake up one

  4. Ep. 96: Colonisation of the East(700-1200) - The Neighbours - Poland, Bohemia and Denmark

    This week we are still getting our bearings. Last week we saw the emergence of the Stem duchy of Saxony and the Eastern marches. This week we take a look at the most important neighbours to the East and North, the Bohemians, the Poles and t

  5. Ep. 95: Colonisation of the East(700-1200) - Callous Kings and Murderous Margraves

    I have to start with an admission. I promised you a History of the Germans but I am afraid there is no such thing. All I can give you is the histories of the German people. The last 94 episodes you have heard one of the histories of the Ger

  6. Ep. 94: Questions and Answers

    Here we are. 2 years of the History of the Germans Podcast. 93 main episodes and 102 when we count bonus episodes, interviews and the like. That makes 3,223 minutes or 2d, 5h and 43minutes of recorded history. At the last count you have dow

  7. Ep. 93: Frederick II's Afterlife - from Fake Emperors to Ernst Kantorowics

    On July 7th, 1285, a sunny day in the city of Wetzlar, a day’s ride north of Frankfurt acrid smoke rises from a mighty pyre built up just outside its walls. The pyre was for an emperor, or at least a man who claimed to be the emperor Fredri

  8. Ep. 92: Pope Boniface VIII - Showdown with the Papacy - Papal Epilogue

    The popes have won the 200-year fight with the emperors, first the Salians and then the Hohenstaufen. A total war that ended in total victory. The imperial family of the Henrys of Waiblingen has been annihilated either in battle, through il

  9. Ep. 91: Konrad IV, Manfred and Konradin (1250-1268) - Hohenstaufen Epilogue

    When Frederick II died in 1250 there were four legitimate male descendants of the emperor, his son Konrad IV, elected king of the Romans, his son Henry, a mere six years old, but from most noble blood, his son Manfred from his relationship

  10. Ep. 90: Frederick II (1196-1250) - Showdown with the Papacy - Things Are Falling Apart

    This week things will indeed be falling apart. The never-ending war is exactly what it is, a never ending, unwinnable war against an enemy that hides on the other side of the Alps and cannot be attacked. Money is running seriously low, and

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