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The story of 19th century intellectual revolutionary Georg Buechner and his 1834 pamphlet Der Hessische Landbot (The Hessian Courier) that called for a land revolution with the rallying cry: "'Peace to the Cottages, War on the Palaces." Facing political imprisonment, Buechner fled the country, but his revolutionary friend, Pastor Friedich Ludwig Weidig, was caught, imprisoned, tortured, and, reportedly, murdered in prison. An informer betrayed the hoped-for uprising, and a bloody response resulted in the peasants remaining subservient to the lords of the manor-estates in Hessen.
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