The War Guilt Question: A Note on Politics and Historiography in the Weimar Republic.

The article discusses the politics aspects of the Weimar Republic of Germany's historiography from 1919 through 1933, with a particular focus on its goal of disclaiming the attribution of guilt for cause World War I and the dislike of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles within Germany. The German liberal and scholar of jurisprudence Hermann Kantorowicz's relationship with the German government, including in regard to his perspective on the causes to World War I, is discussed.