Fritz Fischer's influential Griff nach der Weltmacht finds its way into many of the chapters' citations.
Not only did we have former German biathlon champion Christina Maierhofer for an instructor, but at one point, 1992 Winter Olympic gold medal winner
Fritz Fischer just happened to wander over to see how we were getting on.
This study applies
Fritz Fischer and Hans-Ulrich Wehler's understandings of the Sonderweg to the pre-Nazi era, exploring the existence of a specifically Weimar Sonderweg and analyzing the ways in which the concept of a German Sonderweg differed between the 1920s and the postwar period.
Only occasionally, as during the controversy over the theses advanced by historian
Fritz Fischer in the 1960s, has the First World War overshadowed the Second World War in public discourse.
In making the case for the importance of contingency and of personalities, The Sleepwalkers demythologizes the shamans of the 1960s and 1970s--the following of
Fritz Fischer, the Hamburg historian who held that Germany's reactionary elites, in their attempt to consolidate their power and checkmate socialism at home, willed the war; and also demolishes the orthodoxy of the 1980s--the Rule, Britannia school of W.N.
Resonating with the earlier work of the historian
Fritz Fischer, who was stigmatized for challenging a taboo by emphasizing the violent nature of the German empire, Zimmerer's contributions have provoked strong reactions and an ongoing debate in Germany.
Fritz Fischer caused huge controversy in the 1960s by arguing that imperial Germany had deliberately gone to war to achieve world power status, thus shattering the consensus that the nations of Europe somehow 'slithered over the brink' in August 1914.
Fritz Fischer was German Executive Director for the World Bank Group (1991-1996) and also served as Executive Secretary of the Joint Bank/Fund Development Committee (1984-1987).
It was
Fritz Fischer who sucessfully challenged this orthodoxy in 1961 with his Griff nach der Weltmacht (called more prosaically Germany's Aims in the First World War when it was translated into English in 1967).
She then looks at the effect of the Versailles Peace Conference and, after that, at the effects of the Second World War and of the work by the revisionist historian,
Fritz Fischer. Finally she looks at the most recent debates.
First, there is scant evidence that German civilians--not even the enigmatic Chancellor, Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg--were defensively inclined in 1914, a case made compellingly by
Fritz Fischer: