Ben Wallis’s Reviews > Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 > Status Update

After the peaceful decades following 1815, and years of liberalism, a political murder ushers in a conservative turn. Police crack down on "demagoguery". One of those arrested a young nobleman, member of the Hasenheide gymnasts, was an early proponent of jogging, who would run from Potsdam to Berlin centre and back (pockets full of cobblestones when it became too easy).