• DOI:10.1177/002200948802300101
Corpus ID: 159651458

German History before Hitler: The Debate about the German Sonderweg

@article{Kocka1988GermanHB,
  title={German History before Hitler: The Debate about the German Sonderweg},
  author={Juergen Kocka},
  journal={Journal of Contemporary History},
  year={1988},
  volume={23},
  pages={16 - 3}
}

Juergen Kocka

Published 1988

History

Journal of Contemporary History

What is the place of National Socialism in German history? What were its historical roots, and what did its victory and its defeat mean for German history after 1945? How can this 'German catastrophe' (Meinecke) be interpreted in a comparative perspective? Such questions have been at the centre of many scholarly and nonscholarly debates, most recently in the so-called West German Historikerstreit of 1986, and will continue to occupy, disturb and divide historians and others, particularly in… CONTINUE READING

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