![]() ![]() The event and its aftermath are deeply etched on the national consciousness as die last attempt to free the Czechs from German-speaking Habsburg absolutism that persisted for another 300 years. The same is true for the Czech Republic, especially Prague where the famous Defenestration took place in May 1618 when angry Protestant nobles threw three Catholic officials from the window of the Hradschin palace. Tour guides mention traces of the Swedish and imperial armies almost in the same breath as recounting the effects of Allied bombing. General knowledge and interest is naturally deepest in German-speaking Central Europe, the war's epicenter, where works of popular history still regularly describe the level of destruction as exceeding diat of World War II. WUson The Thirty Years War (1618-1648) retains a place in the historical consciousness of most Europeans at a time when school curricula and TV history channels truncate the past to the last hundred years. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:ΔΆ4 Historically Speaking September/October 2006 The Thirty Years War Peter H. ![]()
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