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History and historians in the nineteenth century
THE dramatic events of the First World War focussed the attention of scholars and students on recent European history, more perhaps in Germany than anywhere else. On the collapse of the Hohen- zollern Empire the fathers of the Weimar Republic courageously decided to reveal the diplomatic secrets of the Imperial régime The main burden of Die Grosse Politik der Europäischen Kabinette, 1871-1914, was borne by Friedrich Thimme, who carried through his task with amazing energy and enriched his fifty volumes with controversial annotations, for his disapproval of the Flotten politik and his dislike of the slippery Bülow were unconcealed. The decision to place Germany's cards on the table was censured in some quarters on the ground that the victors would never follow suit, but the conviction of the editors that other Govern-
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