GERMANY BETWEEN TWO WARS
A Study of Propaganda and War Guilt
Oxford University Press, 1945
2. vydanie
história, podpis autora,
184 s., angličtina
tvrdá väzba s prebalom
stav: dobrý, prebal poškodený
NEPREDAJNÉ
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THE SUPREME ACHIEVEMENT OF GERMAN propaganda since 1918 has been to build up, both for home and foreign consumption, a ´legend’ of Germany betrayed, humiliated, and oppressed. On this misinterpretation of history Hitler nourished the spirit of revenge and domination which found its issue in the war which was loosed on Europe in 1939. It is this legend, rather than the actual course of events in the period between the two wars, which forms the matter of Mr. Fraser’s brilliant and absorbing book. He brings to its study a cool detachment and a wide knowledge. It contains a considerable amount of factual material, some of it derived from sources not previously made available to English readers, and it tells a story which it is essential that all should know and ponder if we are to avoid, in the new settlement, the mistakes which were committed in the old. Was the German Army really stabbed in the back in 1918? Was the Versailles Treaty a betrayal of Allied promises? Did the Allies deliberately prolong the blockade of Germany? and was Germany, in the ’twenties, an innocent victim of merciless enemies? All these questions are posed and answered. Mr. Fraser is at present German News Commentator in the European Service of the B. B. C., and has broadcast regularly to Germany where his name is well known. His book was originally written for circulation in Germany itself, where, it was hoped, it might do something to correct the clever distortion of events to the perfecting of which Dr. Goebbels has given so much time and thought. It is in no sense an official expression of policy, or of the views of the British Government. But it provides an authoritative analysis and refutation of the German propagandist’s version of recent history, and at the same time a reasoned exposition of German guilt for the second world war.
Mr. Lindley Fraser, before taking up his present appointment, was for seven years a Fellow of The Queen’s College, Oxford. In 1935 he became Professor of Political Economy in the University of Aberdeen.
