Volume 19, Number 6 · October 19, 1972
Mandarins and Nazis: Part I
By Geoffrey Barraclough
The Place of Fascism in European History
edited by Gilbert Allerdyce
Prentice-Hall, 178 pp., $2.45 (paper)
The Scientific Origins of National Socialism
by Daniel Gasman
American Elsevier, 240 pp., $13.50
The Decline of the German Mandarins: The German Academic Community, 1890-1933
by Fritz K. Ringer
Harvard, 528 pp., $13.50
Hitler: The Man and the Military Leader
by Percy Ernst Schramm, translated by Donald S. Detwiler
Quadrangle, 214 pp., $2.95 (paper)
A History of Modern Germany, 1840-1945
by Hajo Holborn
Knopf, 818 pp., $14.25
The German Dictatorship
by Karl Dietrich Bracher, translated by Jean Steinberg
Praeger, 553 pp., $13.95
The centenary of the foundation of the Second German Empire in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles on January 18, 1871, was no occasion for celebration, but it provided at least an opportunity to take stock of the vast output of writing on recent German history and draw up a provisional balance sheet. My conclusion, after reading a score of recent books (some of which it is charitable to pass over in silence), is that we have gotten about as far as we are likely to reach along the road most historians have trodden since 1945, and that the time has come for new directions and new goals.
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