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Indlæser... The Creation of the Modern German Army: General Walther Reinhardt and the Weimar Republic, 1914-1930af William Mulligan
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. The subtitle says it all here, as the author examines how Gen. Walther Reinhardt cooperated with the leadership of the Wiemar Republic, not so much out of a sense of commitment to republican values, but out of a pragmatic belief that constitutional government was the best available option to reconstitute a German state capable of playing the role of a great power. While this realistic mentality earned Reinhardt the distrust of the wider German military class, the irony is that the general himself had a wide-reaching vision of how Germany had to become a nation-in-arms, and ultimately became disappointed in the state whose future he helped to secure, and its failure to make military virtues the cornerstone of German society. ( ) ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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Civil-military relations have been a consistent theme of the history of the Weimar Republic. This study focuses on the career of General Walther Reinhardt, the last Prussian Minister of War and the First Head of the Army Command in the Weimar Republic. Though less well known than his great rival, Hans von Seeckt, Reinhardt's role in forming the young Reichswehr and his writings on warfare made him one of the most important and influential military figures in interwar Germany. Contrary to the conventional view that civil-military relations were fraught from the outset, the author argues, Reinhardt's contribution to the military politics of the Weimar Republic shows that opportunities for reform and co-operation with civilian leaders existed. However, although he is primarily seen as a liberal General, this study demonstrates that he was motivated by professional military considerations and by the specter of a future war. His ideas on modern warfare were amongst the most radical of the time. No library descriptions found. |
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