Hello and welcome to the history of the Germans, episode 122, Calamitous Victories.

In 1435, the Hansa can look back at a string of successes.

Another war with Denmark won. The patrician regime in Lubek and elsewhere restored. Conflict

with Burgundy and England settled in their favour. But as Winston Churchill once remarked,

the problem of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but there are no less difficult.

And these problems are raising their ugly heads.

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