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Article: An appeal for a historiographical renaissance: lost lives and the Thirty Years War.
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- June 22, 2005
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IN THE EARLY 1920s, Germans debated the question of French colonial troops in occupied German territories and their impact upon the German population. In this discussion, the "Black Threat" provoked images of the brutalization of war and the threat of a "return to the era of the Thirty Years War." (1) As this vision suggests, until the advent of the Second World War, the Thirty Years War remained the European nightmare of destruction and war, shaping and guiding much of the historical reflection characterizing European thought for roughly three hundred years. As the 400th anniversary of the advent of this conflict nears, it is reasonable to expect that scholars will begin ...
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... ... July 1999 Histories of World War II invariably face criticism ... very useful history of World War II. Purdue covers all ... Purdue suggests that World War II is in reality part of a "Thirty Years' War," which began in 1914 ...
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