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To: wagglebee

How many people in Germany died because of it?


961 posted on 04/23/2010 1:26:58 PM PDT by marajade (Yes, I'm a SW freak!)
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How many people in Germany died because of it?

A great many Germans (both Lutheran AND Catholic) died during the Thirty Years War, but it is naive to think that the religious wars were strictly about religion, they were as much about political control and nation-building as anything.

964 posted on 04/23/2010 1:34:35 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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