October 29, 2015
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Peter Schöttler, « La Zeitgeschichte allemande », Écrire l’histoire, ID : 10.4000/elh.296
Zeitgeschichte seems emblematic of German historiography since 1945. But, the term and the subject are older, and they finally became important with the First World War. As with all contemporary history, Zeitgeschichte has often given an historical legitimacy to political demands or decisions, in this instance in the face of the re-drawing of European borders. This ‘revisionist’ aspect continued on even after 1945. But essentially, the Zeitgeschichte adapted to the new realities in politics and universities, in particular on an international level, thus becoming, since the 1960s and 1970s, one of the most important and critical fields of German historiography.