Geschichtsschreibung als Realpolitik. Über A.J.P. Taylor und die Tragödie Mitteleuropas
Historiography as Realpolitik. About A.J.P. Taylor and the Tragedy of Central Europe

Summary/Abstract: Writing about modern European history is difficult nowadays. The political conditions of the continent mock every tradition, any comparison with the past. The continuity is terminated. If the European state of the world had completely disappeared, such as the Hellenic, one could still study it as a completed, time-disguised one. It’s confusing, however, that Europe is still there, but shows a face beyond which every statesman, every historian, of the nineteenth, still the early twentieth century, would have lost his reason. Everyone feels that it can not stay the way it is. But no one knows where it's going. And as long as the near future has no recognizable Direction, how can one find meaning in the past which led to this present?

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