A Perfidious Distortion of History

by Jurgen Tampke

  Stefan Zweig, Die Welt von Gestern. Erinnerungen eines Europäers (Anaconda Verlag, Colone, 2013), pp. 415–16.

  Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich, p. 120.

  Marks, ‘Misery’, p. 120.

  Manfred J. Enssle, Stresemann’s Territorial Revisionism (Steiner, Wiesbaden, 1980), pp. 110–17; cited in Marks, ‘Misery’, p. 130.

  Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich, pp. 90–91.

  Joachim Fest, Hitler (Penguin, Harmondsworth), 1996, p. 74.

  Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich, p. 265.

  Easily the best: Ian Kershaw, Hitler: 1989–1936: Hubris; Richard J. Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich.

  Chapter Six: Bonn

  Hans Mommsen, ‘The Disintegration of Germany and the end of World War II in Europe’, in John Perkins and Jürgen Tampke, Europe: Prospects and Retrospects. Proceedings of the 1995 Biennial Conference of Australian Association of European Historians (Southern Highlands Publishers, Sydney, 1995), pp. 28–29.

  Richard von Weizsäcker, ‘Speech to West German Parliament commemorating the fortieth year of the German capitulation’, 8 May 1984.

  Kershaw, The Nazi Dictatorship, p. 59.

  Evans, The Third Reich at War, 1939–1945, pp. 741–45.

  Klaus Wiegrefe, ‘Die Schande nach Auschwizt’, Der Spiegel, vol. 35 (2014), p. 29.

  Op. cit., p. 34.

  See pp. 213–214 in this book.

  Fritz Fischer, War of Illusions, pp. 228–30; John Moses, The Politics of Illusions, pp. 73–75.

  Fritz Fischer, Der erste Weltkrieg und das deutsche Geschichtsbild, p. 224.

  Berghahn, Germany and the Approach of War; Sarajewo, 28 Juni 1914. Der Untergang des alten Europa (Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, München, 1997).

  Wehler, Deutsche Gesellschaftsgeschichte, 1849–1914, pp. 1150–68.

  Imanuel Geiss (ed.), Juli 1914. Die Europäische Krise und der Ausbruch des ersten Weltkriegs.

  Fischer, War of Illusions, p. 680.

  Evans, In Hitler’s Shadow: West German historians and the attempt to escape from the Nazi past, p. 21.

  Wolfgang J. Mommsen, ‘Max Weber and the Peace Treaty’, in Boemeke et al., The Treaty of Versailles, p. 536.

  Evans, In Hitler’s Shadow, p. 172.

  Kershaw, The Nazi Dictatorship, p. 176.

  Evans, In Hitler’s Shadow, p. 58.

  Op. cit., p. 22.

  Cited in Richard J. Evans, In Defence of History, p. 141.

  Keith Windshuttle, The Killing of History (Maclean Press, Sydney, 1994), p. 253.

  Die Zeit, 13 August 2015, p. 15.

  Clark, The Sleepwalkers, pp. 148–50.

  The most detailed and readable account is still Paul M. Kennedy, The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism, 1860–1914.

  Clark, The Sleepwalkers, p. 165.

  Wolfram Fischer, ‘Die Weimarer Republik’, p. 40.

  Alan Kramer, Dynamic of Destruction: culture and mass killings in the First World War, pp. 91–94.

  Clark, The Sleepwalkers, pp. 449–50.

  Boyce, The Great Interwar Crisis and the Collapse of Globalization, p. 119.

  Clark, The Sleepwalkers, p. 483.

  Op. cit., p. 560.

  Op. cit., p. 416.

  Kramer, op. cit., p. 92; Paul Ham, 1914: the year the world ended, pp. 276, 284; Imanuel Geiss (ed.), Julikrise und Kriegsausbruch, documents 23 a and b, pp. 32–33, 84, 124, 138.

  Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 20 June 2015, p. 12.

  Ignaz Miller, Mit vollem Risiko in den Krieg, 1914–1918, pp. 12–13.

  Der Spiegel, 28 (2014), p. 42.

  Badische Zeitung, 24 November 2014, p. 7.

  Clark, The Sleepwalkers, p. 293.

  Cited in Miller, Mit vollem Risiko in den Krieg, p. 64.

  Richard Bosworth, Italy and the Approach of the First World War, pp. 131–34.

  Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, pp. 151–58.

  Wilson, ‘Significance’, p. 20.

  Fritz Fischer, War of Illusions, p. 543.

  Margaret MacMillan, The War that Ended Peace (Random House, New York, 2013); Paul Ham, 1914.

  Miller, Mit vollem Risiko in den Krieg, p. 162. Reproduced with permission of NZZ Libro, Neue Züricher Zeitung, Zurich, CH.

  Clark, The Sleepwalkers, pp. 3–64.

  Miller, Mit vollem Risiko in den Krieg, pp. 65–76.

  Op. cit., p. 13.

  Klaus Wiegrefe, ‘Der verschenkte Friede. Warum auf den ersten Weltkrieg ein zweiter folgen musste’, Der Spiegel, 28 (2009), pp. 45–53.

  John Nettles, Jewels and Jackboots: Hitler’s British Channel Islands, p. 30.

  Neil MacGregor, Germany: memories of a nation, p. 395.

  MacMillan, The Uses and Abuses of History, p. 37.

  Richard J. Evans, Altered Pasts: counterfactuals in history, p. 106.

  MacMillan, The Uses and Abuses of History, p. 167.

  Op. cit., pp. 36–37.

  Evans, Altered Pasts, pp. 47–48.

  Keylor, ‘Versailles and International Diplomacy’, p. 503.

  Op. cit., pp. 504–05.

  Op. cit., p. 505.