by Sebastian Haffner · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783442755448
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«Preußen ohne Legende» is the historical essay by Sebastian Haffner, published by btb in paperback (536 pages, in German).
Prussia existed as an independent state for 170 years. Haffner, a Prussian by birth, reviews its history: founding, rise to great power in the 18th century, role alongside Austria and Russia, and dissolution after the German Empire. A critical revision that dismantles the Prussian legend and shows its impact on Europe.
The btb edition appeared in December 1998 and belongs to the history category; it is a non-fiction essay.
For readers interested in European history and a critical revision of the Prussian myth.
Raimund Pretzel, better known by his pseudonym Sebastian Haffner, was a German journalist and historian. As an émigré in Britain during World War II, Haffner argued that accommodation was not only impossible with Adolf Hitler but also impossible with the German Reich with which Hitler had gambled. Peace could be secured only by rolling back history and restoring Germany to a network of smaller states. As a journalist in West Germany, Haffner's independence and penchant for provocation precipitated breaks with editors both liberal and conservative. His intervention in the Spiegel affair of 1962, and his contributions to the anti-fascist rhetoric of the student New Left, sharply raised his profile.
