...Prince Hohenlohe, after witnessing a review of the Berlin garrison in May, 1870, noted in his diary : " I mingled with the crowd, and was struck with the...military. No trace of the former animosity against the soldiery which used to be noticeable among the lower classes. The commonest working man looked on the...

...with the crowds in May 1870 (two months before the Franco-Prussian War) watching a military parade: "No trace of the former animosity against the military...feeling that he belonged or had belonged to them." 17 After the Franco-Prussian War the enthusiasm for things military was even more pronounced. In the...