Napoleon III had declared war on Prussia…
July 1870 CE
Napoleon III had declared war on Prussia to prevent German unification, and thereby made it a war of German national defense.
In the Diet on July 21, August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht refuse to vote for a war loan, although the ADAV supports it.
During the first days of the Franco-Prussian War, the SDAP, at meetings in Berlin, ...