Volume 19, Number 8 · November 16, 1972
A New View of German History: Part III
By Geoffrey Barraclough
The Failure of Illiberalism
by Fritz Stern
Knopf, 233 pp., $7.95
Some twenty years ago Hans Kohn published a book called German History: Some New German Views. It included some interesting contributions, but in retrospect we can see that the undertaking as a whole was premature. In 1952 the time was not ripe for a new evaluation of German history. What seemed important then, and what the essays in Kohn's volume were concerned with, was the rehabilitation of the liberal interpretation which had been denied a hearing in the Nazi period. But the argument still revolved in the framework of the old conflict between liberal and conservative historiography.
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