Freedom and justice -- American style 1632 and in northern Germany things couldn't get much worse. Religous war laying waste the cities. Only the aristocrats remained relatively unscathed; for the peasants, death was a m...Freedom and justice -- American style 1632 and in northern Germany things couldn't get much worse. Religous war laying waste the cities. Only the aristocrats remained relatively unscathed; for the peasants, death was a mercy.