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The Berlin Conference

In Our Time

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Leopold's Submission to the UN Security Council

Leopold ends up with territory 78 times the size of his own kingdom, which is quite a major major in it. 10 million people are killed in no time at all and he's going to be responsible for one of the major humanitarian disasters of the modern age. He has huge support from anti abolitionists, from Baroness Baddet-Kutz. Britain was going into the conference slightly worried. There was some worry that Bismarck was going to quote attack her sort of vital parts. So she's gone into the conference a bit worried, but actually comes out of it all right.

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