The episode revolves around the story of the establishment of the Second Reich, or the second attempt to unite German-speaking people into one empire after the demise of the Holy Roman Empire, which was founded by Charlemagne at the hands of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1806. The episode deals with the story of the Iron Chancellor, Bismarck, who succeeded by deliberately and plannedly engineering three wars with Denmark. Austria and France transformed Germany from 39 warring and fragmented states into a terrifying empire, and how the culture of war was transformed to create the German spirit into a prophecy that would make Germany create the hell of the two world wars.
