Thomas Johnson

“The economic war was lost for Germany as soon as the first shot was fired in August 1914.”
― Katja Hoyer, Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918

“Thus Flottenpolitik and Weltpolitik gained Germany a small array of colonies and the second-largest navy in the world in exchange for diplomatic isolation and looming economic catastrophe.”
― Katja Hoyer, Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918

“The KiKongo language, spoken around the Congo River’s mouth, is one of the African tongues whose traces linguists have found in the Gullah dialect spoken by black Americans today on the coastal islands of South Carolina and Georgia.”
― Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost

“In 1875, civil marriages were introduced as the only legal form. A couple could still get married in a church but only after they had had a state ceremony to make the marriage official in law. This shows very clearly that the Kulturkampf was not a mere measure to restrict Catholic political activity, but it was indeed a battle over spiritual and moral authority in Germany.”
― Katja Hoyer, Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918