Original sentence: As a result the German state enacted under the leadership of Otto von Bismarck several discriminatory measures against them.German Empire's actions combined both religious and ethnic discrimination due to high animosity of Bismarck and Germany towards Polish population in territories conquered by Prussia from Poland.The German term  (, literally "culture struggle")  refers mainly to religious and ethnic persecution in German Empire, although the term is used sometimes in regards to events in other countries.With the rise of nationalism in Prussian dominated German Empire, Catholics and ethnic minorities such as Poles were portrayed as enemies of state, and threat
Edited sentence: The German term  (, literally "culture struggle")  refers to power struggles between emerging constitutional and democratic nation states and the Roman Catholic Church over the place and role of religion in modern polity, usually in connection with secularization campaigns