Lord Palmerston is quoted as saying:
"Only three people have ever really understood the Schleswig-Holstein business—the Prince Consort, who is dead—a German professor, who has gone mad—and I, who have forgotten all about it."
Who is the German professor of which he speaks?
Most people usually associate Germany either with Bavaria, or with the Rhine valley, or with some big cities like Berlin or Frankfurt. But I rarely see anyone mentioning or talking about the extreme North.
So how is it? How are the people, the landscape, the economy, the nature, the food, the politics, the dialect? Is it worth visiting? Is it actually close to Denmark culturally? How does the rest of Germany views it?
Lord Palmerston famously said that only "three men in Europe have ever understood it. One was Prince Albert, who is dead. The second was a German professor who became mad. I am the third and I have forgotten all about it."
Was the only significance of this statement that Albert was dead? His noble house wasn't from the region, and I don't think he was a scholar of it either? Why did Palmerston pick specifically Albert instead of any other dead person?
