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• catalog abstract "The History of the German General Staff is the first comprehensive history of the Prussian and later German General Staff from its earliest beginnings in the Thirty-year War to the German unconditional surrender in 1945. With the dawn of the industrial age, war is taken out of the hands of monarchs and aristocrats and is being directed by highly trained technical specialists who remain basically anonymous. During the first decades of its existance the German General Staff was led by idealists with constructive political conceptions and ethical and Christian mentality. The emergence of the anonymous technicians, whose political convictions were either non-existent or formed by military necessity or military ambitions, only served to aggravate an expansionist, adventurous and militaristic national temperament. After the collapse of the second Reich, the German General Staff was surreptitiously resurrected, but remained basically anti-republican. The outstanding leader during the twenties, Seeckt, always maintained an icy reserve and contemptuous distance to the official government while he built his imperium in imperio. Hitler's decision to force his country into a war which could not end well and his deep hostility towards the General Staff created the greatest tragedy in its history when most of its members were continually torn by the struggle between human, ethical and patriotic responsibilities on one side and by military obedience as exemplified in their military oath on the other side. The continual conflict ended in the attempt on Hitler's life and also in the complete destruction of the German General staff by Hitler himself. Perhaps Hitler was able to destroy it because the modern German General Staff, with all its vaunted uniformity of purpose and action was subject to many different intellectual and political strains and tendencies. There were aloof and cold technicians, warm-hearted, emotional men with European conceptions, fanatical Nazis, gullible dupes, drill sergeant types and true idealistic aristocrats like Stauffenberg. -- from dust cover.".
• catalog contributor b9777841.
• catalog coverage "Germany History 1871-".
• catalog coverage "Germany History, Military.".
• catalog created "[1957]".
• catalog date "1957".
• catalog date "[1957]".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "[1957]".
• catalog description "The History of the German General Staff is the first comprehensive history of the Prussian and later German General Staff from its earliest beginnings in the Thirty-year War to the German unconditional surrender in 1945. With the dawn of the industrial age, war is taken out of the hands of monarchs and aristocrats and is being directed by highly trained technical specialists who remain basically anonymous. During the first decades of its existance the German General Staff was led by idealists with constructive political conceptions and ethical and Christian mentality. The emergence of the anonymous technicians, whose political convictions were either non-existent or formed by military necessity or military ambitions, only served to aggravate an expansionist, adventurous and militaristic national temperament. After the collapse of the second Reich, the German General Staff was surreptitiously resurrected, but remained basically anti-republican. ".
• catalog description "The beginnings -- The fathers: Scharnhorst and Gneisenau -- The era of idealism -- The philosopher of war: The general staff in the age of Clausewitz -- The man of silence: Helmuth von Moltke -- Preventive war or Coup d'état: Waldersee -- The master plan: Schlieffen -- War without generals: The younger Moltke and Flakenhayn, 1906-1916 -- The silent dictatorship: Hindenburg and Ludendorff, 1916-1918 -- The sphinx: Seeckt and teh "Truppenamt" -- The king maker: Kurt von Schleicher -- Hammerstein-Equord -- The uneasy partnership: Ludwig von Beck -- The struggle against war: Fritsch -- Blomberg -- Brauchitsch -- Hitler triumphant -- The beginning of the captivity -- The revolt -- Götterdämmerung.".
• catalog description "The outstanding leader during the twenties, Seeckt, always maintained an icy reserve and contemptuous distance to the official government while he built his imperium in imperio. Hitler's decision to force his country into a war which could not end well and his deep hostility towards the General Staff created the greatest tragedy in its history when most of its members were continually torn by the struggle between human, ethical and patriotic responsibilities on one side and by military obedience as exemplified in their military oath on the other side. The continual conflict ended in the attempt on Hitler's life and also in the complete destruction of the German General staff by Hitler himself. Perhaps Hitler was able to destroy it because the modern German General Staff, with all its vaunted uniformity of purpose and action was subject to many different intellectual and political strains and tendencies. ".
• catalog description "There were aloof and cold technicians, warm-hearted, emotional men with European conceptions, fanatical Nazis, gullible dupes, drill sergeant types and true idealistic aristocrats like Stauffenberg. -- from dust cover.".
• catalog extent "xviii, 508 p.,".
• catalog issued "1957".
• catalog issued "[1957]".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog language "engger".
• catalog publisher "New York, Praeger".
• catalog spatial "Germany History 1871-".
• catalog spatial "Germany History, Military.".
• catalog spatial "Germany.".
• catalog subject "DD101.5 .G6".
• catalog subject "Germany. Heer History.".
• catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Germany.".
• catalog tableOfContents "The beginnings -- The fathers: Scharnhorst and Gneisenau -- The era of idealism -- The philosopher of war: The general staff in the age of Clausewitz -- The man of silence: Helmuth von Moltke -- Preventive war or Coup d'état: Waldersee -- The master plan: Schlieffen -- War without generals: The younger Moltke and Flakenhayn, 1906-1916 -- The silent dictatorship: Hindenburg and Ludendorff, 1916-1918 -- The sphinx: Seeckt and teh "Truppenamt" -- The king maker: Kurt von Schleicher -- Hammerstein-Equord -- The uneasy partnership: Ludwig von Beck -- The struggle against war: Fritsch -- Blomberg -- Brauchitsch -- Hitler triumphant -- The beginning of the captivity -- The revolt -- Götterdämmerung.".
• catalog title "History of the German General Staff, 1657-1945. Translated by Brian Battershaw. Introd. by Walter Millis.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "Military history. fast".
• catalog type "text".