What was the stereotype of German people in the western world before WWI?
By orange2001
Before people started associating “Germany” with being militaristic, no-fun, and super efficient, it was really Prussia that had that reputation. There wasn’t a Germany yet, so Prussia was the one building a standing army and pushing expansion with both diplomacy and fighting. Over time it basically got folded into the idea of a unified Germany, long before WWI. Edit: also, the second time I wrote “militaristic” was my bad—I meant “efficient.”