The Bismarck Myth: Weimar Germany and the Legacy of the Iron Chancellor.(Book review)

Canadian Journal of History | September 22, 2006| | Copyright

The Bismarck Myth: Weimar Germany and the Legacy of the Iron Chancellor, by Robert Gerwarth. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005. x, 216 pp., $85.00 US (cloth).

Robert Gerwarth's study of the Bismarck myth is a valuable addition to our understanding of modern German political culture. He examines the use of Bismarck as a "German national myth" (p. 8) in political and social discourse starting shortly after Bismarck's dismissal in 1890 and continuing through reunification in 1990, with an emphasis on the Weimar Republic. After a brief ...

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