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The Iron Chancellor?

his stamp was issued in 1965, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Otto von Bismarck. In the UK, he remains something of a villain, blamed for the rise of Prussian militarism which led to the First World War. There is some truth in the first part of this, but he had no desire for a pan-European war, which he

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