The Brothers Grimm were interested in unearthing German heritage such that the principalities that would later form Germany had a unifying cultural understanding of themselves. Ann Schmiesing has written a new biography of the Brothers Grimm and talks about how they sourced their tales and what they ultimately meant to German-speaking society.
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