"Historians usually focus their attention on the past of countries that still exist, writing hundreds and thousands of…"

"There was nothing worth saving in what the Nazis built — but could any non-fanatic plausibly say that everything Germ…"

"In the study of German history, there is the notion of sonderweg, literally the “special path,” down which the German…"

"I never doubted that the victory over France must precede the restoration of the German kingdom, and if we did not su…"

"Nationalism at first had seemed to pose a threat to Europe's monarchies. In the 1860s, however, the kingdoms of Piedm…"

"The union of the States of Germany into a form of government similar in many respects to that of the American Union i…"

"We see the strongest guarantee of peace for Europe in a policy of expansion. When have we exploited the embarrassment…"

"Manifestly, in August 1914 the status quo of western Europe was about to vanish. Either the liberal democracies would…"

"From Antwerp to Baghdad there lies before us a large economic field in which German enterprise can develop. If we suc…"

"Let us...take the most concrete example of state capitalism...It is Germany. Here we have the 'last word' in modern, …"