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Could Frederick the Great have prevented the Great War?

A headache-inducing counterfactual

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Katja Hoyer
Sep 28, 2025
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Cropped version of Anton Graff’s famous painting of Frederick the Great aged 68.

On Friday, I did something I hadn’t done in a while. I visited Sanssouci Park in Potsdam, around 16 miles southwest of …

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