• DOI:10.1017/S0008938900016551
Corpus ID: 145752809

Descent of the Sonderweg: Hans Rosenberg's History of Old-Regime Prussia

@article{Hagen1991DescentOT,
  title={Descent of the Sonderweg: Hans Rosenberg's History of Old-Regime Prussia},
  author={W. Hagen},
  journal={Central European History},
  year={1991},
  volume={24},
  pages={24-50}
}

W. Hagen

Published 1991

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Central European History

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Before Hans Rosenberg reached his thirtieth year, the National Socialist seizure of power, abetted and applauded by disproportionate numbers of his contemporaries, drove him into exile. Many years later he wrote of the “curiosity and anxiety” he felt toward the catastrophe of German fascism, which had “disfigured and besmirched the wrinkled historic face of my native land beyond recognition,” giving it “the most sordid and brutal expression in its entire past.”