#kulturkampf
Top Voted Definition for #kulturkampf
Persecution & oppression of the Catholic Church at the hands of the German government under Kaiser Wilhelm I & his "Iron Chancellor" Bismarck. From 1871 to 1890, Catholics in the German Empire, especially in the German states of Prussia, Bavaria, Hesse, Baden, & occupied Poland, faced legal disabilities, imprisonment, & exile, all in the name of German national pride & unity.
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