Suchergebnisse

When in 1919 Friedrich Meinecke gave the highest priority to a "union with our Austrian brothers," he was not alone in the historical profession. Implicit in this demand was a new political role for the Austrians that had been scarcely thought possible before 1918. This political conception quite naturally influenced historical writing. "TheAnschluss," wrote Hans Herzfeld, "was one of the strongest forces in Weimar historical thought." This was true although the acceptance ofAnschlussseemed to violate the heretofore preponderantkleindeutschtradition in German historiography. This paper traces the attempt of these new forces to undermine the oldkleindeutschhistory.