Modern Germany
Barker, J. Ellis Excerpt from Modern Germany: Its Rise, Growth, Downfall and FutureThe Hohenzollern rulers, considering the country their property, administered it in accordance with ancient custom as if it were a huge estate. They directed absolutely, and as a rule in person, the army, the civil administration, the foreign and domestic policy of the State, industry, trade, and commerce, the Protestant and the Roman Catholic Churches, the schools, the universi...