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| | Szwedrowski Origins |
 | | It would not be until the defeat of Napoleon III at the battle of Sedan on September 2, 1870 and the subsequent proclamation of the German Empire on January 18, 1871, with William I as its first Kaiser, would a united German state emerge as a world power to be reckoned with. |
 | | Thus on Wednesday, November 29, 1865, in the town of Prinzenthal, known to the Poles as Wilczak Wielki, in an eastern district of the province of Posen called Bromberg, Joseph Szwedrowski was born, neither Pole nor German. |
 | | Otto von Bismarck, 1815-98, was born to well-to-do parents at Schönhausen in the Prussian province of Saxony, not far from Stendal. |
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