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Treitschke’s Influence on the Rise of Imperialist and Anti-British Nationalism in Germany

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Nationalist and Racialist Movements in Britain and Germany Before 1914

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No less a person than Friedrich Meinecke wrote in an obituary to Heinrich von Treitschke in 1896 that with the death of the latter, one of the most glorious men ever to set foot on German soil had been lost to one and all; according to him Treitschke had been ‘brilliant, fiery, authentic, fearless and magnanimous’ and ‘had led many thousands to the highpoints of their lives’. All those who had attended the funeral of this highly respected historian and political publicist had been, as Meinecke could still recall decades later, convinced that they had mourned ‘one of the mightiest men Germany had ever produced’.1

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  1. Peter Winzen
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  1. University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

    Paul Kennedy BA, (Newcastle-upon-Tyne), D Phil (Oxon) (Reader in History) (Reader in History)

  2. St Antony’s College, Oxford, UK

    Anthony Nicholls MA, BPhil (Oxon) (Official Fellow, University Lecturer in European History) (Official Fellow, University Lecturer in European History)

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Winzen, P. (1981). Treitschke’s Influence on the Rise of Imperialist and Anti-British Nationalism in Germany. In: Kennedy, P., Nicholls, A. (eds) Nationalist and Racialist Movements in Britain and Germany Before 1914. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04958-5_9

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