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Documents - Germany at War, 1914-1918: Mobilization of the Home Front
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21.   Thomas Mann, "Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man" (1918)
Thomas Mann (1875-1955) wrote the essay, “Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man,” during the First World War. A riposte to....
22.   Hermann Cohen, "Germanness and Jewishness" ["Deutschtum und Judentum"] (1915)
Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) was one of the most important German philosophers of the second half of the nineteenth century. He was professor at the prestigious University of Marburg and is perhaps....
23.   Engelbert Krebs, "On the Meaning of Sacrifice" ["Vom Opfersinn"] (1914-1915)
Engelbert Krebs (1881-1950) was a Catholic theologian who wrote this sermon during the war. Protestants and Catholics alike subscribed to a “war theology,” providing a powerful representation of....
24.   Johann Plenge, 1789 and 1914 [1789 und 1914] (1916)
Johann Plenge (1874-1963), a German philosopher in Heidelberg, interpreted the First World War as a German revolution, akin to the French revolution of 1789. Yet, instead of the pursuit of individual....
25.   Rosa Luxemburg: War and the Working Class (January 1916)
In late 1914, Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) and other radical socialists broke with the Social Democrats over the war, which....
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