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" Blood and Iron "is a linguistic image used in politics in Germany, especially since the Napoleonic Wars. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, this pair of words was associated with the idea of either the founding of a German nation-state brought about by military means or a power-state-military approach. The buzzword “blood and iron” gained notoriety through a speech that the Prussian Prime Minister Otto von Bismarck gave to the budget committee of the Prussian House of Representatives on September 30, 1862 during the Prussian constitutional conflict. As a result, both opponents and supporters of the Prime Minister saw the pair of words as a strategy of Bismarckian politics: the aim of "Blood and Iron" was to use foreign policy successes to distract from domestic tensions. Under the impression of the so-called German wars of unification of 1864, 1866 and 1870/1871, the term then developed into a founding myth of the German Empire. –Go to Article …

What happened on February 9th?

0967 – Saif ad-Daula , Emir of Aleppo since 945 , dies.
1827 - The first edition of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society appears.
1907 - Around 3,000 women gather in London for the United Procession of Women , the largest public rally for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom at the time.
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