In the wake of the Fischer Controversy on the origins of World War I thereemerged in West Germany a younger generation of historians who took a criticalrevision... » 

In the wake of the Fischer Controversy on the origins of World War I thereemerged in West Germany a younger generation of historians who took a criticalrevisionist view of the Bismarckian Empire and began to analyze the politicaldevelopment of the Hohenzollern monarchy against the background of thecountrys social and economic power structures. Professor Wehler became one ofthe most prominent exponents of this approach and his structural analysis ofthe Kaiserreich created a considerable stir when it was first published. Ithas since with its incisive and rigorous analysis become a classic in thefield. «