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KAISERREICH OUTLINE
POLITICAL
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Gruender speeches of Lasker
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Windthorst Reichstag speech on the Kulturkampf
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Antisemites' Petition
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Kautsky, The Class Struggle
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* "Die Internationale"
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* Bismarck's fall from power
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* Bismarck's version from the memoirs
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* Wilhelm II's version from his memoirs
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* Hohenlohe-Schillingsfuerst diary account
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* Bismarck on the "Polish problem"
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Agitational literature from the Agrarian League, Pan-
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German League, Navy League, antisemitic parties, etc.
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* Daniel Frymann, Wenn ich der Kaiser waer'
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Gebsattel memorandum
MILITARY
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Fontane's war journalism
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Tirpitz memoirs
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* Moltke on war
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* Wilhelm II swears in new recruits
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* Bernhardi, The Next War
DIPLOMACY AND IMPERIALISM
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Bismarck on the Ems Dispatch
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Ems Dispatch [incoming and outgoing versions]
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Holstein papers
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* Wilhelm II, speeches on the Boxer Rebellion
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Riezler diaries
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CULTURE AND IDEOLOGY
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Richard Wagner, "What is German?", "Modern"
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excerpts from Lagarde, Langbehn, Chamberlain
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Malwida von Maysenbug, Memoirs
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Maximilian Harden, feuilliton
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Wandervoegel
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Treitschke political commentary
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* Hitler's discovery of antisemitism in Vienna
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* Hitler's letter to Adolf Gemlich
SOCIAL-ECONOMIC, ALLTAGSGESCHICHTE [the history of everyday life]
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* Opinion poll from the Berliner Illustrierter Zeitung
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Child labor in rural Bavaria
WORLD WAR I
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September Program
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* Luxemburg, Junius pamphlet
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Rathenau, Erzberger, Stresemann
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Manifesto of the 93
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Vaterlandspartei propaganda
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Easter resolution 1917
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Freud to A. Zweig, letter
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Ludendorff, Politik und Kriegsfuehrung