Andrea Wulf
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Jun
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In 1792, the French, so there's a war.
So a lot of European nations are fighting against the French and their kind of dangerous ideas of revolutions.
So the French take Mainz and instead of being worried about the invaders, Forster welcomes them.
And he wants to establish a German Republic.
Because from the age of 10, when he traveled through Russia, he's seen the kind of harsh reality of despotism and inequality.
And these are really the themes that obsess him all his life.
And when he returns from the resolution voyage, he fights for the rest of his life.
He fights for freedom, equality, and against racism and white supremacy.
So he becomes a revolutionary.
And he becomes the co-founder of...
the so-called Mainz Republic, which is Germany's first republic, very short-lived, only a few months.
He then travels to revolutionary Paris to ask the French government if the Mainz Republic can become part of the French Republic.
By the time he's doing that, the Prussians have taken Mainz back.
So he's declared an outlaw, basically.
I mean, he's a traitor.
He cannot go back to Germany.
So he is in Paris during the brutal reign of terror.
but despite seeing this bloodshed, he still supports the revolution, which makes him very unpopular in Germany.
It's one thing to support what happened at the beginning, another thing to kind of initiate a German revolution, and then to support the kind of bloodshed in France, you know, it's not going to make him popular in Germany.
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