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Karlsbad Decrees: How Metternich Crushed German Freedom
In 1819, after the assassination of a conservative playwright, Austrian Chancellor Klemens von Metternich convinced the German Confederation to issue the Karlsbad Decrees — a set of laws that censored newspapers, dissolved student fraternities, and placed universities under state surveillance. This episode explores the reactionary atmosphere of post-Napoleonic Europe, the Wartburg Festival's nationalist fervor, and how the Decrees became a template for political repression across the German states. We follow the figure of Joseph Görres, a writer whose radical journalism was silenced, and…
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