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The Peace of Prague: How a Treaty Split Germany
In 1635, the Peace of Prague ended the Swedish phase of the Thirty Years' War but left the Holy Roman Empire fractured. This episode explores how Emperor Ferdinand II's agreement with the Protestant princes of Saxony and Brandenburg, negotiated by Johann Georg I and Maximilian von Trauttmansdorff, failed to secure a lasting peace. We trace the fall of Wallenstein, the Swedish intervention under Gustavus Adolphus, and the fateful decisions at the Regensburg Kurfürstentag. Why did the Peace of Prague disappoint nearly everyone? And how did it set the stage for the even more…
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