Fritz Fischer

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Fritz Fischer

German historian

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historiography
Diplomatic history
…in 1961 a German historian, Fritz Fischer (1908–99 ), reopened this question with Griff nach der Weltmacht: Die Kriegziel politik das kaiserlichen Deutschland, 1914/18 (1961; Germany’s Aims in the First World War, 1967), kindling a lively debate in West Germany.
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…in 1961 a German historian, Fritz Fischer (1908–99 ), reopened this question with Griff nach der Weltmacht: Die Kriegziel politik das kaiserlichen Deutschland, 1914/18 (1961; Germany’s Aims in the First World War, 1967), kindling a lively debate in West Germany.
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20th-century international relations
The search for causes
The German historian Fritz Fischer published a massive study of German war aims during 1914–18 and held that Germany’s government, social elites, and even broad masses had consciously pursued a breakthrough to world power in the years before World War I and that the German government, fully aware…
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The German historian Fritz Fischer published a massive study of German war aims during 1914–18 and held that Germany’s government, social elites, and even broad masses had consciously pursued a breakthrough to world power in the years before World War I and that the German government, fully aware…
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