Germany's aims in the First World War /

Germany's aims in the First World War /

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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 begi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fischer, Fritz, 1908-1999
Corporate Author: Mazal Holocaust Collection
Format: Book
Language:English
German
Published: New York : W.W. Norton, 1967.
Subjects:
1888-1918
World War, 1914-1918 > Causes.
World War, 1914-1918 > Germany.
Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 > Causes.
Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 > Allemagne.
Diplomatic relations
War > Causes
Germany > Foreign relations > 1888-1918.
Allemagne > Relations extérieures > 1888-1918.
Germany
Table of Contents:
  • German imperialism: from great power policy to world power policy
  • Germany and the outbreak of war: the miscalculation on British neutrality
  • 1: 1914-1916
  • In expectation of a Blitz victory: from Bethmann Hollweg in class
  • The promotion of revolution: means and ends
  • Popular pressures: publicists, societies, parties and princes
  • The war aims policy of the Reich's leaders, 1915: from depression to the claim for hegemony
  • The war aims policy of the Reich's leaders, 1916: feelers for a separate peace in west and east
  • The objectives of war aims policy, I: Vassal states, a Germanic north-east and economic integration
  • Germany and the United States: submarine warfare and the Belgian question
  • War aims programmes: Germany and her allies, November, 1916 to March, 1917
  • 2: 1917
  • A Hindenburg peace or a Scheidemann peace? War aims and internal policy
  • Maintenance of Germany's war aims programme: Parrying Austria's desire for peace
  • Germany and the new Russia: the promotion of revolution and attempts to make a separate peace
  • War aims in the July crisis of 1917: change and continuity
  • Michaelis and Kuhlmann: renunciation in the west?
  • The re-shaping of war aims policy: maintenance of eastern aims
  • The objectives of war aims policy, II: between annexation and self-determination
  • 3: 1918
  • The peace of Brest-Litovsk: the first realization of German war aims
  • The elaboration of Mitteleuropa: the peace treaties with Finland and Rumania-Poland and Mitteleuropia
  • The elaboration of the Ostraum: the Ukraine, the Crimea, the Don Transcaucasia
  • Germany between whites and reds: policy towards rump Russia
  • The vision of world power: objectives of war aims police, III
  • The expectation of final victory: climax of power and reverse, and the continuity of war aims.

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