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Germany's Aims in the First World War
This professor's great work is possibly the most important book of any sort, probably the most important historical book, certainly the most controversial book to come out of Germany since the war. It had already forced the revision of widely held views in Germany's responsibility for beginning and continuing World War 1, and of supposed divergence of aim between business and the military on one side and labor and intellectuals on the other.
Germany's Aims in the First World War
A scholarly interpretation of Germany's policies and attitudes during the first World War and their profound effect on subsequent world events
From Kaiserreich to Third Reich
Originally published in English in 1986, this book offers a concise summary of the contribution Fritz Fischer and his school made to German historiography in the 20th century and in particular draws attention to continuity in the development and power structures of the German Reich between 1871 and 1945. After 1866 the traditional elites wanted to avoid fundamental changes in society, expecting a victorious war to secure their own position at home and to broaden the European base of the German Reich. Even as the Blitzkrieg expectations foundered, these ambitions persisted beyond 1918. In the face of working-class hostility, these elites were unable to mobilize mass support for their interests, but Hitler fashioned a mass party. The alliance between these unequal partners led to the Third Reich but with its collapse in 1945 the Prusso-German Reich came to an end. Only with the German Federal Republic did the liberal-democratic traditions of German history again come into their own.
Bid for World Power?
Over fifty years ago the German historian Fritz Fischer published his famous book Germany's Aims in the First World War. It departed from the established consensus that many countries and governments had a shared responsibility for the outbreak of the war, and put the onus primarily on Germany. The book initiated a fierce international debate which Fischer seems to have mostly won. By the middle of the 1970s many of his controversial positions had become mainstream. More recent research, however, started to question this consensus again. Many scholars moved away from focusing on the responsibility of individual countries or politicians and turned to the complex structures and mechanisms of t...
World Power Or Decline
"A major Historical controversy was touched off in Germany by the publication in 1961 of Fritz Fisher's first book, Griff nach der Welmacht (published by Norton in English translation as Germany's Aims in the First World War). For here was a German historian concluding, on the basis of exhaustive archival research, that Germany had entered the first world war with definite expansionist plans, plans that were extended rather than relinquished even when the war turned into a prolonged, inconclusive struggle. What made Professor Fischer's thesis particularly startling was the evidence he marshaled to show that the zeal for German expansion was not limited to the kaiser and his inner circle of m...
MAKING THEM LIKE US
"Explores the dissonance between the straightforward economic development envisioned by Peace Corps leaders and the complicated realities, ill-defined jobs, entrenched bureaucracies, and resentful hosts encountered by the volunteers who served during the agency's first decade."--Back cover.
War of Illusions
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