What was common in the Italian unification and German unification
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Both were aspired by Romanticism and had a leader at their top as Count Camillo de Cavour for Italian Unification and Otto Von Bismarck for German Unification.
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Italian unification was a desperate struggle to survive. Foreign rule had reduced Italy to what we would describe as a Third World condition (to give only one datum, four-fifths of the population were illiterate). What is even worse is that resisting economic and technological progress was a definite policy. In order for Italy to even continue to exist, foreign rule had to be broken, and the only way to do that was to unite what little power existed in the peninsula. People did not accept this at first. The settlement of 1815 was never accepted by any Italian except for the few who profited by Austrian occupation and reactionary power, and there was unrest in the peninsula virtually from the word go, but it was not until the collapse of the revolution of 1848 that most politically aware people decided that unity was the only way to go.
German unification was more about a strong desire never to be again the battleground and plaything of foreign countries, sending their own soldiers to die for the kings of England and of France and of every other country. Germany was not economically ruined as Italy was, but she suffered from a similar inability to run its own affairs and count for something in the world.