13 Facts About Klaus Hildebrand

Along similar lines, in a 1976 article, Klaus Hildebrand commented on left-wing historians of the Nazi Germany that in his view they were:.

However, Klaus Hildebrand believes in contrast to the work of Martin Broszat and Hans Mommsen that the "authoritarian anarchy" caused by numerous competing bureaucracies strengthened, not weakened Hitler's power.

Klaus Hildebrand has argued against the Sonderweg view of German history championed by the Mommsen brothers.

Together with Andreas Hillgruber, Klaus Hildebrand argued for the traditional Primat der Aussenpolitik approach with the focus on empirically examining the foreign policy making elite.

Klaus Hildebrand has argued that Germany's position as the "country in the middle" bordered by Russia and France has often limited the options of the German government in the 19th-20th centuries.

In regards to the Globalist-Continentalist debate between those argue that the Hitler's foreign policy at world conquest against those who argue that Nazi foreign policy aim only at the conquest of Europe, Klaus Hildebrand has consistently taken a Globalist position, arguing that the foreign policy of the Third Reich did indeed have world domination as its goal, with Hitler following a Stufenplan to reach that goal.

Klaus Hildebrand sees Hitler's "Programme" for world domination as comprising in an equal measure crafty power politics and fanatical racism.

Together with Andreas Hillgruber and Gerhard Weinberg, Klaus Hildebrand is considered to be one of the leading Globalist scholars.

One fraction, whom Klaus Hildebrand dubs the "revolutionary socialists", supported an anti-Western policy with support for independence movements within the British Empire and an alignment with the Soviet Union.

Since 1982, Klaus Hildebrand has worked at the University of Bonn as a professor in medieval and modern history, with a special interest in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Klaus Hildebrand served as editor of the series concerning the publication of the documents of German foreign policy.

Hildebrand's critics such as the British historian Richard J Evans accused Hildebrand of seeking to obscure German responsibility for the attack on the Soviet Union, and of not being well informed on Soviet foreign policy.

Some champions of the "preventive war" theory were critical of Klaus Hildebrand for using the term Uberfall to describe Operation Barbarossa because it implied Hitler still had some freedom of choice in 1941.