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The Holstein Papers

The Holstein Papers

The Holstein Papers

The Memoirs, Diaries and Correspondence of Friedrich von Holstein 1837–1909
Volume 2: Diaries
Friedrich von Holstein
Norman Rich
M. H. Fisher
February 2011
2. Diaries
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    Friedrich von Holstein (1837–1909) was Bismarck's subordinate at the German Foreign Office. Since his death historians have combined to make him a monster of sinister and self-seeking policy. A selection of his Nachlass, which was first published in volume form between 1955 and 1963, is presented here. The original effect of this publication prompted an entire re-judgement of Bismarck, of German foreign policy at that time and since, and of Holstein himself. Though he had been advised by Bismarck that it was indiscreet to keep a diary, Holstein began to do so in the 1880s, and passed the pages to a cousin as they were completed up to 1886, when they died out. This diary (Volume 2) gives an incomparable fresh and direct description of life in the German foreign ministry at the time as well as Holstein's own mordant comments on the general trend of international politics.

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    February 2011
    Paperback
    9780521179621
    428 pages
    229 × 152 × 24 mm
    0.63kg
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    Table of Contents

    • Preface
    • Introduction
    • Diaries:
    • 1. 1881, 1882
    • 2. 1883
    • 3. 1884
    • 4. 1885
    • 5. 1886
    • 6. 1887
    • 7. 1888
    • Appendices
    • Index.
      Author
    • Friedrich von Holstein
    • Editors
    • Norman Rich
    • M. H. Fisher