![]() ![]() ![]() (1) While the rise of National Socialism was always the implicit or explicit backdrop for this scholarship, others pursued suggestions made by Hannah Arendt and Aime Cesaire, namely that imperialism was a laboratory for the later policies of the Nazis. Responding to the Fischer controversy about German culpability for the outbreak of World War I, several historians contributed analyses that linked domestic politics to German expansionism before and during the war. In the 1960s and 1970s, scholars scrutinized the development of a German overseas empire during the Bismarckian and Wilhelmine periods. "Imperialism" has had an uneven career in German historiography. ![]()
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