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Article: BRITISH POLICY AND THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC 1918-1919.(Review)
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- The Australian Journal of Politics and History
- Article date:
- March 1, 1999
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By Douglas Newton. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997, pp. x + 481. No price given.
Douglas Newton's book that details the significance of British policy on the Wehnar Republic from 1918-1919, is a cogent analysis into the political forces that fundamentally shaped British attitudes towards postwar Germany. Central to Newton's thesis is the proposition that British antipathy towards the Weimar Republic was politically driven, and had been moulded by an underlying disdain of German and international socialism. Further, Newton indicates that British political decision-making processes as they related to the Weimar Republic, were driven by the significant propagation of ...