In the autumn of 1914 the German Foreign Office launched a sweeping programme of global insurrection, which created networks of agents and information reaching from Berlin to Tehran, Calcutta and San Francisco. Yet Germany’s pioneering role in instiga…
This article seeks to understand East German reactions to the Fischer controversy within the broader context of German-German historiographical relations during the Cold War. For an interpretive framework it draws on Christoph Kleßmann’s n…
The controversy that followed publication in 1961 of Fritz Fischer’s Griff nach der Weltmacht was not restricted to West Germany. Even if the Fischer debate abroad did not acquire the vehemence it took on domestically, intellectually the effect …
This article focuses on the ‘document-driven’ nature of the Fischer controversy and the conviction of both the Fischer school and its critics that utilizing ever more archival documents would inevitably unearth ‘the truth’ abou…
The article focuses on the Austrian reaction to Fischer’s Griff nach der Weltmacht in the media and in academia. Although Vienna was host to the International Congress of Historical Sciences in 1965, one of the most prominent events in the unfol…
In 2003, revelations about Fritz Fischer’s Nazi past caused surprise in Germany. To many commentators it appeared mysterious, if not suspicious, that an outspoken critic of German national history had changed his views so radically after 1945. T…
Fritz Fischer’s 1961 Griff nach der Weltmacht enjoys a well-deserved reputation as a landmark in later twentieth-century German historiography. The impact of the so-called ‘Fischer controversy’ on British scholarship, by contrast, wa…
In this article the main phase (1961–5) of the Fischer Controversy will be analysed. The hostile rejection by fellow German historians will be seen in contrast to the more neutral and sometimes even positive responses by leading journalists. The…
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The richness and intensity of the three-day conference, promoted by the German Historical Institute in London from 13 to 15 October 2011, made the summary I was asked to provide unusually difficult. I had 31 pages of notes on the papers presented. The…
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