Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1979

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Portnoy, Samuel A.

Abstract

Fritz Fischer is a German his t orian who caused an historical controversy in the 1960s by claiming that recent evidence of a German plan for territorial annexations, drafted during the First World War, indicated that Germany had provoked a war with France and Russia in 1914. An historical consensus now concludes that Fischer's evidence only reinforced older interpretations of the war's causation that predicated German culpability upon its desire to support its ally, Austria-Hungary, in a military strike against Russia's protege, Serbia. Prior historians could not blame the war solely upon Germany's desire for world power, since the Austro-Serbian conflict reflected ambitions of various powers to dominate the Balkans. Germany, therefore, was condemned for miscalculating Franco-Russian determination to block an Austrian subjugation of Serbia in 1914, but not for provoking a war of conquest against Russia and France, as Fischer suggests.

Extent

140 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1979.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FADT13958

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