Karl Wagner is a disgruntled middle-aged instructor at the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College. He finds himself concerned about the direction which the German nation is headed in—just as he is killed by a terrorist attack. Only to awaken and find himself reborn as an infant, Bruno von Zehntner, the youngest son of a noble family renowned for its part in the German war industry a few years after the founding of the German Empire. Bruno, as he is now known, desires to rewrite history and ensure the German Empire emerges victorious in the coming century. And in doing so, finds himself entrenched in a world filled with Blood and Iron!
While Heidi was making every possible preparation for the family's vacation to Saint Petersburg, which was where the Tsar's Winter Palace was, which was the primary residence of the House of Romanov. Bruno had found himself back at work, where he immediately requested time off to attend the ball which the Tsar was throwing for some ceremonial reason or another.
Because of this, Bruno's request first went to the Chief of Staff, who passed it off to the Kaiser. And the result was an invitation to the Kaiser's palace. Because of this, Bruno was escorted out of the headquarters belonging to the Central Division of the German Army's high command, and was brought to the Kaiser's palace, which he had visited on three prior occasions in his life.
Once as a teenager where he defended his fiancée's honor against a prince who dared to sully her name. And twice when coming back from war as a way to personally debrief the Kaiser on what he had been up to.