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From Hitler to Bismarck: ‘Third Reich’ and Kaiserreich in Recent Historiography: Part II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Richard J. Evans
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University of East Anglia

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2 Röhl, J. C. G. and Sombart, Nicolaus (eds.), Kaiser Wilhelm II: new interpretations (Cambridge, 1982), discussed in Part I of this review article.Google Scholar

3 Summarized in several of the contributions to Hirschfield, G. and Kettenacker, L. (eds.), The ‘Führer state’: myth and reality: studies on the structure and politics of the Third Reich (Stuttgart, 1981), discussed in Part I of this review article.Google Scholar

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6 See Part I above, pp. 491–3.

7 See the discussion in Part I above, pp. 491–3.

8 Studies along these lines include a number of the essays collected in Evans, Richard J. (ed.), Society and politics in Wilhelmine Germany (London, 1978)Google Scholar, and especially David, Blackbourn, Class, religion and local politics in Wilhelmine Germany: the Centre party in Würtemberg before 1914 (London, 1980).Google Scholar

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22 See Rudy, Koshar, ‘Away from the centre: two recent local studies of Nazism from the Federal Republic’, Social History, viii, I (January 1983), 7786.Google Scholar