07-01-2016, 05:51 PM
Thirty Years War ending with the Peace of Westphalia. Switzerland got formal independence, Spain had to recognize the reality of Dutch independence, Prussia became the leading power in northern Germany, religious freedom was recognized for Catholics, Calvinists, and Lutherans. The worst war in Europe before the 20th century, and one proportionately as lethal in some places as World War , was over. I
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.