Heinrich von Treitschke,(1834-1896), a very influential historian and university professor, was active in politics in his youth as a liberal but in the 1870s he became an intense nationalist, militarist, and anti-Semite.  Thus, he is a good example of the kind of person that Bismarck was able to seduce away from liberal, democratic values through appeals to German nationalism.  Below you will a few short, characteristic passages from his Politics (1874-1896.  Pay attention not only to his vision of the nation, but also to his values and the kinds of appeals he used.

“The features of history or virile, unsuited to sentimental or feminine natures.  Brave peoples alone have existence, an evolution or a future;  the weak and cowardly perish and perish justly.  The grandeur of history lies in the perpetual conflict of nations ..."  "It is war which fosters the political idealism which the materialist rejects.  What a disaster for civilization it would be if mankind blotted its heroes from memory."  "The long oblivion into which this principle [war] had fallen is a proof of how effeminate the science of government had become in civilian hands."