Fritz Fischer

The U.S. history curriculum is under attack. Politicians, political analysts, and ideologues seek to wipe clean the slate of the American past and replace it with one of their own invention. The basis for this new narrative comes from political beliefs of the present, rather than any systematic examination of the past. These anti-historians campaign to insert their version of American history into the nation’s classrooms, hoping to begin a process that will forever transform our understanding of America’s past. The Memory Hole examines five central topics in the US history curriculum, showing how anti-historians of both the left and right seek to distort these topics and insert a refashioned story in America’s classrooms. Ignoring facts, refashioning other facts and pretending that there are no rules in the telling of history, these re-interpreters of the past place the minds of America’s young people in danger. The beleaguered hero of this book is the discipline of History, and The Memory Hole shows how the history curriculum should adhere to history’s habits of mind that require complex, sophisticated and subtle thinking about the past. History and social studies teachers, students of history and all those who care about the deep and enduring value of history will value this book and its conclusions.

The U.S. History Curriculum Under Siege

The Memory Hole

Spanlose Formgebung in Walzwerken

A scholarly interpretation of Germany's policies and attitudes during the first World War and their profound effect on subsequent world events

Germany's Aims in the First World War

Hajo Holborn

Friedrich Fischer

This professor's great work is possibly the most important book of any sort, probably the most important historical book, certainly the most controversial book to come out of Germany since the war. It had already forced the revision of widely held views in Germany's responsibility for beginning and continuing World War 1, and of supposed divergence of aim between business and the military on one side and labor and intellectuals on the other.

ein Beitrag zur süddeutschen Skulptur der ersten Hälfte des 17. Jahrhunderts

Der Meister des Buxheimer Hochaltars

Presents seven essays, five of them published previously. Pp. 174-181, "Hitler war kein Betriebsunfall" [first published in "Spiegel-Spezial: 100 Jahre Hitler" (Hamburg, 1989)], survey the popularity of antisemitism and racism in Germany during the 19th century. The immigration of East European Jews to Germany and Austria strengthened Hitler's conviction that the Jews had to be exterminated in order to create "Lebensraum" for the German population.

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