March MadnessHistory 323 / Jan. 28, 2013

Cartoon mocking loud German “Rhine patriotism”

“The Watch on the Rhine”

Lyrics by Max Schneckenburger (1840)

Tune by Karl Wilhelm (1854)

The Hermannsdenkmal (Arminius Monument), near Detmold

Walhalla on the Danube (completed 1842)

Friedrich Wilhelm IVKing of Prussia,

1840-1861

Completing the Cologne

Cathedral

The opening of the Prussian United Diet (Landtag),April 11, 1847

“No piece of paper will come between me and my people!”

February 1848: Parisians at the barricades

Lola Montez(1821-1861)

Vienna, March 1848: angry crowds

Hungarian cartoon depicting the revolution

Vienna, 13. March 1848.

Emperor Ferdinand: Why is the crowd making noise?Royal servant: They are doing revolution.Emperor Ferdinand: Aha, and are they allowed to do it?

Metternich flees from Austria

Barricades in Berlin, March 1848

After the victory: a citizens’ militia on parade in Berlin

Friedrich Wilhelm IV

flies the German colors

Remembering the martyrs: funerals for Berlin’s freedom fighters