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ZDF series "The Germans II" Thomas Munzer led the peasants in a bloody war.

The ZDF-series "The Germans II" is the most complex historical documentation that it ever existed on German television: "In ten episodes (Sundays, 19.30 clock, and Tuesdays at 20:15 clock) shows the ZDF, the most important figures in German history. For this, Prof. Guido Knopp BILD.de before the respective television episodes.

Episode 5: THOMAS AND THE PEASANT WAR Mntzer

He, final fantasy 14 gil, was the first freedom fighter in German history - the Thuringian Rev. Thomas Munzer (1489-1525). The preacher of the mutiny of the simple peasants against exploitation by the nobility and thus sparked the first revolution on German soil.

Prof. Guido Knopp

Mntzer fought for freedom, equality and justice. His goal is a society in, cheap aika gold, which counts only the faith of the people and not their standard

Frankenhausen in Thuringia on 15 May 1525, the day of decision: For a year now raging in parts of Germany the peasant war. Thomas Munzer and his peasant army are surrounded by the enemy troops princes.

Opponents charge the cannons and get ready to massacre the peasants. Although the balance in, buy darkfall gold, opposing contingents are equally strong, but the 6,000 mercenaries of the rulers have far better weapons. The farmers want to win their revolution with pitchforks, scythes, spears and clubs.

Mntzer sharpest weapon IS THE WORD

In Frankenhausen discharges a conflict that holds the continent for over a hundred years again and again in breath -, ffxiv gil, between rulers and ruled, aristocrats and peasants.

Still life is shaped by the medieval emperor and Staendeordnung with Pope in the lead, supported by the nobility and clergy. Then come the merchants and craftsmen - but carried the biggest load of peasants.

As the conflict escalates, Munzer is the leader of the peasants and a leading figure of their uprising. The preacher wears a sword, his most effective weapon is the word.

Mntzer is aware of the hopeless situation: How long can the barricades of hay to withstand the onslaught? He sends a messenger to the enemy camp, hopes for the realization of the sovereign. But the response of the princes is clear: Thomas Munzer is to be delivered.

The farmers could the guns and the brutality of mercenaries Fuerstlichen not withstand. In Frankenhausen the uprising was a bloodbath.

The other peasant wars that preceded spread countrywide over the whole of Germanywere ending up in a bloody massacre. At the end of more than 100 000 farmers die in Germany.

ENDS WITH Mntzer DECAPITATION PEASANT WAR

Mntzer paid his seditious ideas to life. Two weeks after the battle, he is led to execution - with his decapitation and the Peasants' War ends in central Germany.

To Thomas Munzer divorce continues to be the spirits. For some he is a zealot, the people who believed in led him to ruin. For others, it is the first German freedom fighter.

Muntzer dream of unity and freedom in Germany, however, should go only centuries later in implementation.

. "The Germans II: Thomas Munzer and the Peasants' War" the ZDF on Sunday 28 November, from 19:30 to clock.

. By clicking through 1200 years of German history under www.diedeutschen.zdf.de.

. The book of the series is published by Bertelsmann Verlag: Guido Knopp, Stefan Burger Brau, Peter Arens, "The Germans - from Charlemagne to Rosa Luxembourg", 432 pages, 24,99 Euro