Weltmacht oder Untergang: Die Weltreichslehre im Zeitalter des Imperialismus

by Sönke Neitzel, Winfried Baumgart (Vorwort)

Originally presented as the author's Habilitationsschrift--Universitèat Mainz, 1999

453 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Sönke Neitzel is a German historian who has written extensively about the Second World War.
Neitzel was educated at the University of Mainz and is currently Professor of Military History at the University of Potsdam, having moved there from the London School of Economics in 2015. He has also held posts at the University of Karlsruhe, University of Bern, and the University of Saarbrücken in Germany and Switzerland, and was briefly Professor of Global Security at the University of Glasgow in 2011/12.

He is editor of the journal German History in the 20th Century and has written several books such as Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing and Dying: The Secret Second World War Tapes of German POWs based on recordings of German POWs held at Trent Park. Neitzel edited the book Tapping Hitler's Generals (with Harald Welzer (de)).