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1260: 419:'s idea that the best defenders of liberty come from the upper crust of society and cast the men and women of 20 July as a perfect example of Burke's theory. Rothfels claimed that the German opposition was motivated by the highest possible ethical and moral considerations, and asserted that there were no self-interested motives whatsoever amongst the men and women of the 20 July. Rothfels argued that the actions of the 20 July conspirators were motivated a sense of 210:'s letters, and was the first historian to be authorized by the Bismarck family to publish the Iron Chancellor's correspondence. Rothfels was noted for his claim that Bismarck was neither the "iron chancellor" of "banal legend" nor an "opportunist", but rather a profoundly religious man struggling to deal with a reality whose full complexity was only understandable to God. He defended Bismarck's Germanization policies against Poles claiming they were "defensive". 249:. A major interest of Rothfels in the 1920s was his belief in the obsolescence of the nation-state, and the need for a "loosening up" of the Versailles borders through increased protection of minorities. Rothfels promoted an idea of race classification based on readiness of non-German ethnic groups in Eastern Europe to submit themselves to rule of German Third Reich The Eastern and Southeastern nationalities were to be "restructured" and integrated with German " 570:
studying events so close to the past and the challenge of writing about events that one experienced oneself, required special patience, skill and ability of the part of the historian. In particular, Rothfels called for historians working in the field of contemporary history to approach matters in an objective and neutral matter while keeping in mind the moral questions. In practice, contemporary history came to refer history from 1914 on.
150:. He supported an idea of authoritarian German state, dominance of Germany over Europe and was hostile to Germany's eastern neighbours. After his applications for honorary Aryan status were rejected, due to his Jewish ancestry and increased persecution of Jewish people by Nazis, he was forced to emigrate to the United Kingdom and later to the United States during the 502:. Moreover, far from Nazism being rooted in German traditions, Rothfels claimed that the strongest opposition to Nazism came from those grounded in traditional values. In Rothfels's opinion, "the traditions of a genuine 'Prussian militarism'" provided the principle "bulwark against nationalistic and demagogic excesses". 388:
and on understanding the Clausewitz the man as the key to understanding Clausewitz the military thinker. Rothfels maintained Clausewitz's personality, social background, war experience, and his schooling all needed to be understood to properly appreciate his theories about war. Most notably, Rothfels
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by the possibility of Soviet attack on Germany. Hillgruber and Seraphim argued for the "preventive war" thesis while Rothfels and Weinberg opposed it, arguing that it was Nazi racial theories that were the origins of the German invasion of the Soviet Union. The majority opinion was that Rothfels and
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After his return to Germany, Rothfels was a pioneer of contemporary history, the study of the "epoch of those who lived at the time" to use Rothfels's words. In Rothfels's view, contemporary history was the study of the recent past, where despite or rather because the lack of documentation caused by
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and the individual. Rothfels argued that "Modern mass civilization generates a reservoir of evil forces whose release spells barbarism...What triumphed after the pseudo-legal revolution of 1933 was in fact and to a great extent the dark forces forming the sedimment of every modern society". Rothfels
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was the result of the general problems of modern civilization, which Rothfels saw as based on a set of values that were overtly materialistic, secular, and dehumanizing, and which had reduced most people to a mindless mass. Rothfels wrote "In many respects, Nationals can be considered as the final
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was a controversial book because Rothfels focused his attention largely on anti-Nazis on the Right and for the most part ignored anti-Nazis on the Left. In addition, many felt that the book was a hagiographical treatment of anti-Nazi conservatives. His motive in writing the book was in part to
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as great German leaders as a proof for Rothfels' support of Hitler. While Haar had implied the speech dates from 1933 and was addressed to Hitler after he took over power in Germany, Winkler verified the actual circumstances of the speech, which Rothfels repeated several times prior to 1933.
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in 1953 and another article in 1959 that examined the plight of Polish Jewry under Nazi rule. In his works Rothfels aimed at minimising the German hostility to Jews, while highlighting any attempts to save them by German individuals. Crimes and support for anti-semitism were downplayed, and
206:, "Carl von Clausewitz: Politik und Krieg", led to Heidelberg granting him a degree in history. In 1920, Rothfels's dissertation was published as a book. In 1922, he edited and published a collection of Clausewitz's private letters. In addition, Rothfels published several collections of 332:. Rothfels defended German hegemony over this "outpost of Western Europe and Western civilization" and complained about resettlement of Germans there due to Soviet-Nazi treaties. Rothfels left for the United States, where he stayed until 1951, and took U.S. citizenship. He taught at 667:
In his lifetime and since his death, Rothfels has been a very controversial figure. Many see him as apologist for the anti-democratic German Right, and in particular, his attitude towards the Weimar Republic has recently been the subject of controversy in Germany. The historian
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opposition to racial discrimination portrayed by Rothfels as dominant. As such his text produced a vision of history in which for example the 1930s were virtually absent from anti-semitism, and non-Jewish Germans were completely willing to help Jews.
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where he became a professor. Considering his views at that time, a Jewish-German student was surprised that Rothfels was forced to leave Germany in the first place. During his time in the United States, he befriended the American publisher
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workers, based on racist criteria Those living outside the "German sphere" were to be classified by hierarchy based on their "cultural heritage" and ruled under direction of Germans and a vassal class that would collaborate with them.
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in the American zone of occupation that showed the majority of Germans had a low opinion of the men and women involved in the 20 July plot. Rothfels was determined that Germans should see them as heroes, not villains.
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Weinberg destroyed Seraphim's and Hillgruber's arguments. Indeed, Hillgruber himself did a volte-face and renounced his former thesis as mistaken. Later, in 1961, Rothfels took a strong stand against the American
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ended with a call for people all over the West to embrace what Rothfels regarded as the noble ideas of the conservative opponents of Nazism, which Rothfels saw as leading to back to the higher values of the West.
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regime as representative of all that was best about German life and argued that the actions of the conspirators had restored Germany's honour from the disgrace the Nazis had brought upon it. Rothfels accepted
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summit of an extreme consequence of the secularization movement of the nineteenth century". In Rothfels's view, the values of modern mass civilization had led most people to forget the fundamental values of
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for several hours, during which he was deprived of his crutches and beaten up. Together with his wife and their three children, Rothfels left for the United Kingdom, where he hastily began to learn
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were outdated due to advances in military technology and tactics, nonetheless, Rothfels felt that Clausewitz was the most important military philosopher of all time. The U.S. military historian
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Biography between Structure and Agency: Central European Lives in International Historiography (Studies in German History) by Volker R. Berghahn and Simone Lassig (1 August 2008), page 95-96
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portrayed Clausewitz as a man under considerable psychological strain caused by his commoner background in the largely aristocratic Prussian Army. Through Rothfels contended that aspects of
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After his return to Germany, Rothfels took a strong stand against those whose work he felt could exonerate the Nazis. In 1954, he and one of his star pupils from the University of Chicago,
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of 1944, which was based upon a lecture given at the University of Chicago in 1947. Rothfels, who remained a steadfast German nationalist all his life, saw the conspirators against the
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and the eastern borders it had imposed on Germany. Rothfels advocated German domination of Eastern Europe and making its population into serfs. As a historian, his major interests were
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Geschichte und Gegenwartsbewusstsein: Historische Betrachtungen und Unterschungen. Festschrift Für Hans Rothfels Zum 70. Geburtstag Dargebracht von Kollegen, Freunden und Schülern
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was merely a continuation of the struggle between what he called the "conservative freedom movement" and totalitarian forces. In particular, Rothfels was opposed to any sort of
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had the highest circulation of any historical journal in West Germany. During the 1950s, Rothfels was one of the few German historians who attempted a serious examination of
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prevent the emergence of a new stab-in-the-back legend that might once again undermine democracy in Germany. He was dismayed by public opinion polls taken immediately after
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has differed with some of Rothfels's interpretation of Clausewitz, but acknowledged Rothfels as a major influence on his work on Clausewitz.
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War Stories: The Search for a Usable Past in the Federal Republic of Germany Robert G. Moeller, page 57,University of California Press 2003
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Berg, Nicolas "Hidden Memory and Unspoken History: Hans Rothfels and the Postwar Restoration of Contemporary German History" from
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Harvey, John L. "Were Chicago and Providence really so far from Königsberg and Tübingen? The Rothfelsstreit in an American Key"
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by birth. Eventually, Rothfels was forced to leave his university position due to his Jewish ancestry, despite intervention by
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after 1945 where he continued to influence history teaching and became an influential figure among West German scholars.
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Iggers, Georg G.. "The Decline of the Classical National Tradition of German Historiography" pages 382–412 from
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Ingo Haar, Michael Fahlbusch, "German scholars and ethnic cleansing, 1919–1945", Berghahn Books, page 8 2005,
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argued that the Nazis came to power as a result of a series of unfortunate developments that had occurred in
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marked the beginning of a public debate among German historians about the "brown history" of their field.
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German scholars and ethnic cleansing, 1919-1945Michael Fahlbusch, page 6,7,236–260 Berghahn Books, 2006
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conspiracy against Germany. Also in 1961, Rothfels assisted Weinberg with the publication of
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in 1938 for the United Kingdom. What decided the issue for him was his experience during the
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Forum: Gerhard L. Weinberg: Nicolas Berg, The Holocaust and West German Historians. Comments
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Rothfels and his inner circle at Königsberg in the early 1930s are often referred to as the
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Aspekte deutscher Aussenpolitik im 20. Jahrhundert: Aufsatze Hans Rothfels zum Gedächtnis
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Rothfels's critics contend that his planned 1933 radio address was too little, too late.
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An Interrupted Past: German-Speaking Refugee Historians in the United States after 1933
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Although supportive of right-wing politics (according to some, he might have voted for
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Dzieje Wielkopolski Volume 2, page 888, Czesław Łuczak, Wydawnictwo Poznańskie, 1973 -
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which Weinberg had discovered in 1958, and for which Rothfels wrote the introduction.
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Clausewitz in English: The Reception of Clausewitz in Britain and America, 1815–1945
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Paths of Continuity: Central European Historiography from the 1930s to the 1950s
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Knights Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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Hans Rothfels and the Intersection between Radical Conservatism and Nazism
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Henry Regnery Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1948; published in Germany as
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broke out in 1914. As a student, Rothfels had been a leading pupil of
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Klemperer, Klemens von "Hans Rothfels, 1891–1976" pages 381–383 from
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Documentation of the Expulsion of Germans from East Central Europe
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who claimed that the outbreak of war in 1939 had been due to an
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and Hans-Günther Seraphim over the issue of whether the German
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after World War I such as the Great Inflation of 1923 and the
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Bismarck-Briefe. Ausgewählt Und Eingeleitet Von Hans Rothfels
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as the first serious essay ever published on Clausewitz in
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in 1932), he was subject to increasing persecution, being
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Scherpe, Krefeld, 1949, revised editions 1961 & 1963.
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has strongly criticized Haar, who had erroneously used a
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Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States
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that was set up by the government for documenting the
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Recipients of the Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg
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Das politische Vermächtnis des deutschen Widerstandes
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Washington, D.C.: German Historical Institute, 1991
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In foreign affairs, he often denounced the 8: 1427:Academic staff of the University of Tübingen 1096:Hans Rothfels – Ein Lobredner Hitlers ? 837:"Zeitgeschichte als Aufgabe" pages 1–8 from 308:, a language that he subsequently mastered. 300:and he himself was arrested and held by the 182:. He was studying history and philosophy at 146:(12 April 1891 – 22 June 1976) was a German 750:. They soon found themselves together in a 368:In an essay published in 1943, in the book 273:, the Nazi president of Danzig Senate, and 1136:, New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. 780:Eingeleitet Von Hans Rothfels, Stuttgart, 647:. Many later prominent historians such as 20: 961:Haar, Ingo; Fahlbusch, Michael (2005). 889: 756:expulsion of Germans after World War II 692:address Rothfels gave in 1930 praising 1194:, Volume IX, Issue # 4, December 1976. 772:Carl von Clausewitz: Politik und Krieg 577:had a renowned debate on the pages of 947: 830:by Rudolf Rocker" pages 839–841 from 635:. In the 1950s, Rothfels worked with 627:of the ethnic German population from 7: 1372:Humboldt University of Berlin alumni 1352:German Army personnel of World War I 1327:Converts to Lutheranism from Judaism 1250:, Volume 36, Issue # 1 January 1963. 945: 943: 941: 939: 937: 935: 933: 931: 929: 927: 865:Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 858:Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 839:Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 821:Die deutsche Opposition gegen Hitler 579:Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 563:Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 551:Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 543:Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 361:and became actively involved in the 877:Bismarck; Vorträge und Abhandlungen 804:Journal of Central European Affairs 732:. They were active in the field of 372:on Clausewitz, has been praised by 1229:Great Historians of the Modern Age 809:"1848 – One Hundred Years After," 14: 1093:Winkler, Heinrich August (2001). 871:Bismarck, der Osten und das Reich 834:, Volume 56, Issue #4, July 1951. 674:Historiker im Nationalsozialismus 434:Rothfels saw Nazism as a type of 1185:The German Conception of History 1059:The German Conception of History 1043:The German Conception of History 1030:The German Conception of History 879:, Stuttgart, W. Kohlhammer 1970. 828:Die Entscheidung des Abendlandes 813:, Vol. 20, No. 4 (December 1948) 774:, Dümmlers Verlag, Berlin, 1920. 676:called Rothfels an enemy of the 423:, devotion to the principles of 1347:German male non-fiction writers 1261:Works by or about Hans Rothfels 787:"Clausewitz" pages 93–113 from 659:were involved in this project. 511:The German Opposition To Hitler 504:The German Opposition to Hitler 404:The German Opposition To Hitler 166:Rothfels was born to a wealthy 1317:20th-century German historians 527:In 1951, Rothfels returned to 1: 1417:University of Chicago faculty 1004:Steinweis, Alan E. Review of 791:edited by Edward Mead Earle, 789:The Makers of Modern Strategy 370:The Makers of Modern Strategy 1362:Heidelberg University alumni 587:invasion of the Soviet Union 1180:, Volume 6, Issue # 3 1967. 538:Institut für Zeitgeschichte 178:. In 1910, he converted to 1443: 832:American Historical Review 752:commission led by Schieder 549:. Within a few years, the 1242:Remak, Joachim Review of 1162:Fahlbusch, Haar (editor) 811:Journal of Modern History 531:, where he taught at the 194:. Rothfels served in the 137: 85: 1397:People from Hesse-Nassau 1322:Brown University faculty 1192:Central European History 1072:Central European History 1006:Jan Eckel: Hans Rothfels 993:Central European History 910:Central European History 486:with Nazism such as Sir 427:and the highest form of 219:University of Königsberg 107:University of Königsberg 760:Deutscher Historikertag 686:Heinrich August Winkler 131:Heinrich August Winkler 1332:German anti-communists 741: 717: 533:University of Tübingen 488:Lewis Bernstein Namier 283:Joachim von Ribbentrop 1129:Bassford, Christopher 806:, Vol. IV, July 1944. 346:University of Chicago 279:League of German East 221:. 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Index

Kassel
German Empire
Tübingen
West Germany
History
University of Königsberg
Karl Heinz Bremer
Gerhard Weinberg
Hans Mommsen
Heinrich August Winkler
historian
Second World War
West Germany
Jewish
Kassel
Hesse-Nassau
Lutheranism
Heidelberg University
World War I
Friedrich Meinecke
German Army
Soissons
Carl von Clausewitz
Otto von Bismarck
University of Berlin
University of Königsberg
Königsberg
reactionary
Weimar Republic
Habsburg Empire

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