The Economist (US), July 27th, 1991
For the many Germans who were happily sure that Prussia with its "blood and iron" tradition was dead, this summer is proving unsettling. Bad enough, the Prussia-fearers say, that the Bundestag and government agreed last month to shift to Berlin, Bismarck's (and Hitler's) capital. Then came the revelation that the newly-restored statue of the victory goddess atop the Brandenburg gate was to carry the Prussian eagle and iron cross for the first time in decades. Now there is a lot of what critics call unseemly ballyhoo over the reburial next month of Frederick the Great, Prussia's warrior king....
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