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The Iron Harvest: How Prussia Fed Europe
While the world remembers Germany for its wars and industrial might, it often overlooks the quiet agricultural revolution that built the modern nation. In this episode, we explore how the Kingdom of Prussia transformed from a marginal territory into the breadbasket of Europe through state-led agrarian reform. We examine the life of Johann Wilhelm Kestner, a pragmatic bureaucrat who realized that feeding a standing army required more than just conquest—it required efficiency. The conversation details the abolition of serfdom, the introduction of crop rotation systems borrowed from Dutch…
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