History 1401E Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hans Ulrich Von Schaffgotsch, Sonderweg, German Colonial Empire
26 Mar 2016
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L historians have only found casual links to bismarck and the third reich and cannot prove as they were in diferent eras. Grant robertson, in a biography which is sill worth reading, was able to appreciate bismarck"s genius and immense skill, although he nevertheless depicted him as a malign inluence on. Switzerland during the second world war, the majority of german historians right up to the early 1960s agreed fundamentally with s. a. kaehler that any atempt to link. Bismarck with hitler was "legend, prejudice and propaganda" Foreign historians were trying to get a direct and casual link between the bismarck era and the. 1789" and had consequently "poisoned the body of germany incurably and the body of all europe as well" Helmut bohme argued that the history of the uniicaion of germany could "no longer be writen as part of oto von bismarck"s biography", and instead concentrated on unravelling prussian and.
