Epilogue
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 September 2019
Summary
The epilogue takes up the story of the men followed in the book after the calamity ofWorld War II and the Holocaust, offering reflections on West Germany’s transformation into a peaceful democracy and its reintegration into the world economy enabled by the Bretton Woods System, the NATO alliance, and debt forgiveness. It concludes with observations about Fritz Fischer’s interpretation of the course of German history and the continued relevance of the German past for understanding the challenges of globalization in the twenty-first century.
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- Learning EmpireGlobalization and the German Quest for World Status, 1875–1919, pp. 600 - 603Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019