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Historical figures were humans too

Even the Iron Chancellor was a man of flesh and blood

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Katja Hoyer
Sep 24, 2023
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‘Please just let me see my Johanna again’ – those were the whispered last words of the once towering figure of Otto von Bismarck, breathed out as he lay on his death bed on 30 July 1898. He had spent…

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