What does this have to do with the royal palace? Its defenders would protest that the palace is not a symbol of Prussian militarism or German chauvinism—and they would be largely correct. The palace was essentially completed prior to the death of Friedrich I, before one can discern anything resembling Prussian militarism or German nationalism. Several later kings lived there seldom or never—including Wilhelm I, who presided over German unification and was the first Hohenzollern to be called emperor. Also—an important if rarely voiced argument for the palace’s friends—it can be seen as
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