Hello and welcome to the history of the Germans, Episode 205, Zembach, the death of a duke and the birth of a nation, which is also episode 3 of season 11, the fall and rise of the House of Habsburg.

They had grown somewhat thoughtful.

Then, without warning, it began again.

Horrible, as though the thing had sprouted wings and was riding towards them on the back

of fiery monsters, flaming and shrieking, a long-drawn-out cry, here we come, it truly

seemed as if an underworld were suddenly seized with a desire

to break out through the hard earth. The sound was like a black gaping abyss, and the sun

now appeared to be shining from a darkened sky, glaring down more dazzling than ever, but as through from

a hell, not the heavens.

The rushing crowd, apparently full of passion, drew closer, and the knights stood their ground.

Suddenly they seemed fused together. Ironmen held out their lances.

Lance upon lance stuck out so mindlessly firm and unyielding,

just the thing you might think for such an impetches, raging human beast, to impale itself on.

Here an idiotic wall of spikes, there people half covered with shirts.

Here the outer war the most prejudice there is, there people

seized with helpless rage. There'll never be anything to equal the battering with which these

light mountain and valleymen, driven and elevated by their fury, now battered their way into

the clumsy, despicable wall, smashing and ripping it apart

like tigers ripping apart a defenseless herd of cows.

Those on horseback were flung down like cartmort with a crack like that of a paperback,

blown up and burst between one's hands.

Heads were scuffed by blows, appeared only graced, yet proved to be bashed in.

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