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Rick Steves’ Europe: German flavors in French Alsace
After France lost the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, Germany annexed it. It bounced back to France after World War I. All these centuries as a political shuttlecock have given Alsace a hybrid culture.
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Why unification was achieved in Germany
In the build up to war, the southern confederate German states voluntarily joined the Prussian-controlled Northern German Confederation. Germany was now unified. The Franco-Prussian war was ended ...