Isn’t there a school of thought among historians that the period from the first world war until about the end of WWII can be seen through the same lens, rather then breaking them up unto distinct eras?
I’d be interested to hear more about this. I mean it makes sense from an historical materialist perspective, which might see Nazi Germany as a development out of the contradictions of the earlier period. So something of a continuation rather than a sequence of ideologically ‘isolated’ Germanies.
I heard about it not just in the context of Germany, but for all of Europe basically. Historians viewing that period in Europe as a continuum rather than breaking it into distinct periods e.g. WWI, interwar years/depression, rise of fascism, WWII.
Isn’t there a school of thought among historians that the period from the first world war until about the end of WWII can be seen through the same lens, rather then breaking them up unto distinct eras?
I’d be interested to hear more about this. I mean it makes sense from an historical materialist perspective, which might see Nazi Germany as a development out of the contradictions of the earlier period. So something of a continuation rather than a sequence of ideologically ‘isolated’ Germanies.
I heard about it not just in the context of Germany, but for all of Europe basically. Historians viewing that period in Europe as a continuum rather than breaking it into distinct periods e.g. WWI, interwar years/depression, rise of fascism, WWII.
That makes sense. I’ll keep an eye out for this idea.