Given a chance would you kill baby Hitler?

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In Wikipedia, both the pages for Prussia and Frederick the Great contain the word German more than 100 times. You say you remembered these things off the top of your head. Did you study this as a subject in college?

I studied history. But my degree paper was about German colonial associations and their publications. I majored in 20th century European history, so I know more on that than on previous centuries.

Yes, and why shouldn't they say German when talking about what we now know as Germany? Doesn't mean, it was a homogenous nation back then. German nationalism only rose in the wake of Napoleon. But that didn't prevent the different German dominions to wage wars against each other. The last one in 1866, when some of them were allied with Austria and others with Prussia.

What they mean by German is a shared language, and only to some degree, culture, since that is still vastly different in different parts of Germany.