Time and Power: Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years’ War to the Third Reich, by Christopher Clark

Hester Vaizey on how regimes employed different temporal signatures to legitimate their authority

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February 28, 2019
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February 28, 2019
Hester Vaizey
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Breaking from the past: Adolf Hitler (pictured here at the Welt Stadium at the 1936 Olympics) is among the four key figures in German history examined

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Print headline: Every ruler has to reset the clock

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