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Looking back at the aims of Prussian reformers and patriots between 1807 and 1813, Baron vom Stein wrote in 1823: Our chief idea was to rouse a moral, religious, patriotic spirit in the nation, to inspire it anew with courage, self-confidence, a readiness to make any sacrifice for independence from foreigners and national honour, and to seize the first opportunity to begin the bloody and hazardous struggle for both.
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Hagemann, K. (2012). A Valorous Nation in a Holy War: War Mobilization, Religion and Political Culture in Prussia, 1807 to 1815. In: Broers, M., Hicks, P., Guimerá, A. (eds) The Napoleonic Empire and the New European Political Culture. War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137271396_18
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