House of Hohenzollern
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Sep 12, 2026
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
One observes with some surprise, by the way, that the old palace of the first king of Prussia is still large enough to contain the first German emperors.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
May we imagine that the haughty son of the great elector, with the limitless ambition of the Hohenzollerns, foresaw the remote future destiny of his house? From the sculptors, William II, faithful to the same aesthetic principles, has ordered statues, gigantic in size or cast into stiff, formal attitudes, representing the heroes of his line and the great men who served his ancestors.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
Surely they do not deserve such barbarous treatment.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
His infatuation for official painting has prevented him from appreciating artists of original talent, such leaders of schools as Max Lieberman, whom he looks upon as revolutionaries.
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Ted LinhartNARRATOR
It is obviously with this intention that the Siegesallee was laid out through the Thiergarten in Berlin with its double row of marble statues, symmetrical and funereal, more suited to a royal family vault than to a public park.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
There, almost shoulder to shoulder, stand emperors of Germany, ancient and modern, electors of Brandenburg and kings of Prussia, a significant pantheon.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
At Vienna, the princes of the Habsburg house avenged the defeats of 1866 by treating the Hohenzollerns as upstarts.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
At Berlin, however, the descendant of these upstarts aimed at nothing less than reviving the monarchy of Charlemagne.
Kate FallisNARRATOR
And a family.
Kate FallisNARRATOR
Do you think I'm a Hohenzollern?" At the thought, the soldier chuckled.
Kate FallisNARRATOR
"Me with a family," he muttered to himself.
Kate FallisNARRATOR
"Now that's a fine idea." I saw that I was getting on dangerous ground, but curiosity prompted a further question.
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Kate FallisNARRATOR
We have a red flag.
Kate FallisNARRATOR
We have imperial socialism.
Kate FallisNARRATOR
We have the house of Hohenzollern.
Kate FallisNARRATOR
Well, then I say let them talk if they want to.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
By the Treaty of Thorn the whole of West Prussia was surrendered to Poland, while East Prussia was left to the Order as a Polish fief.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
In vain did the knights appeal to Frederick III for help throughout this struggle, and finally in disgust at the selfish indifference of the Habsburgs, the Grand Master, Albert of Hohenzollern, converted East Prussia into a duchy for himself and his descendants, and the Teutonic Order came to an inglorious end.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
In Frederick's dealings with the Church in Germany his conduct was the reverse of patriotic.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Germany had kept outside the dispute between Pope Eugenius IV and the last great reforming council at Basel.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
For the next fifty years German resistance to papal claims was of the feeblest.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Frederick's reign in Germany has been described as the climax of imperial neglect.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The general contempt for the Emperor's authority was shown by constant private wars, among which that between Albert Achilles of Hohenzollern and the town of Nuremberg may be quoted as an example.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The fact was that as long as Frederick had his way as prince in his Austrian states he cared little what indignities the Empire might suffer.
Peter YearsleyNARRATOR
His lineage dwarfs that of the proudest nobles and kings.
Peter YearsleyNARRATOR
English peers whose ancestors came in with the conqueror, the Guelphs, Habsburgs and Hohenzollerns of our European thrones are things of yesterday compared with His Highness the Devil.
Peter YearsleyNARRATOR
The Caesars themselves, the more ancient rulers of Assyria and even the Pharaohs of the First Dynasty are modern beside him.
Peter YearsleyNARRATOR
His origin is lost in the impenetrable obscurity of primitive times.
SoniaNARRATOR
In 1866, Prussia expelled the House of Habsburg from Germany, and four years later consolidated her work by marching to the walls of Paris at the head of a united German host.
SoniaNARRATOR
which there acclaimed William of Hohenzollern chief of a new Germanic empire.
SoniaNARRATOR
What has happened since then, and chiefly the scramble for colonies or for establishing economic suzerainty, belongs more to the field of present politics than of history.
SoniaNARRATOR
For that reason it may be left out of account, and so indeed has much else been left out of account for which the limit of space fixed for this essay has proved altogether too narrow.
Justin PodurHOST
had a fine speech too if he had just gotten there first.
Justin PodurHOST
So here's Liebknecht's speech on the balcony of the Hohenzollern's palace.
Justin PodurHOST
He says, the rule of capitalism, which turned Europe into a cemetery is hence forward broken.
Justin PodurHOST
We remember our Russian brothers.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
5.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Brandenburg, in the hands of the Hohenzollerns.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
And 6.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Württemberg, which was made a duchy in 1495.
Edward ShawcrossGUEST
But the one thing that they can all agree on is that they hate the French.
Edward ShawcrossGUEST
So Bismarck engineers this situation whereby a Hohenzollern, so this is the Prussian royal family, will put a junior member on the vacant kingdom of Spain, right? There's no one on the Spanish throne.
Edward ShawcrossGUEST
Hasn't been since 1868.
Edward ShawcrossGUEST
This explodes into, into Paris in, in the summer of 1870, and there's absolute outrage, both on the streets of Paris, but also amongst politicians saying, "We can never allow this," because of course it would mean if France went to war with Prussia, they would have to keep a number of troops back to guard the Pyrenees.
Michael LeggiereGUEST
He was always concerned about appearing legitimate.
Michael LeggiereGUEST
I mean, you could take what you just asked and say, well, why didn't Napoleon just, you know, disenthrone the Habsburgs? Why didn't Napoleon disenthrone, you know, the Hohenzollerns like he did to the Bourbons of Spain and so forth? There were just some things that Bonaparte wouldn't do.
Michael LeggiereGUEST
Surrendering in December of 1814 and accepting the peace was not one of them.
Michael LeggiereGUEST
He still, even though he lost at Leipzig, he still held the Allies in contempt.
Peter YearsleyNARRATOR
And I think there should be a sort of bounty-fed export—is that the right expression?—of the people who impress on you that you ought to take life seriously.
Peter YearsleyNARRATOR
There are only two classes that really can't help taking life seriously—schoolgirls of thirteen and Hohenzollerns.
Peter YearsleyNARRATOR
They might be exempt.
Peter YearsleyNARRATOR
Albanians come under another heading.
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