March Madness History 323 / Jan. 28, 2013
Cartoon mocking loud German “Rhine patriotism”
“The Watch on the Rhine” Lyrics by Max Schneckenburger (1840) Tune by Karl Wilhelm (1854)The Watch on the Rhine
The Hermannsdenkmal (Arminius Monument), near Detmold
Walhalla on the Danube (completed 1842)
Friedrich Wilhelm IV King of Prussia,
Completing the Cologne Cathedral
The opening of the Prussian United Diet (Landtag), April 11, 1847
“No piece of paper will come between me and my people!”
February 1848: Parisians at the barricades
Lola Montez ( )
Vienna, March 1848: angry crowds
Hungarian cartoon depicting the revolution Vienna, 13. March Emperor Ferdinand: Why is the crowd making noise? Royal servant: They are doing revolution. Emperor Ferdinand: Aha, and are they allowed to do it?
Metternich flees from Austria
Barricades in Berlin, March 1848
After the victory: a citizens’ militia on parade in Berlin
Friedrich Wilhelm IV flies the German colors
Remembering the martyrs: funerals for Berlin’s freedom fighters