TY - JOUR A1 - Köppen, Paul T1 - A Possible Peace? The Interwar Franco-German Relationship in Historiographical Perspective JF - Ricerche di Storia Politica N2 - This essay aims at discussing the new literature on Franco-German relations during the period 1918-1930. It highlights how many works now question the idea that the Treaty of Versailles and the European order that ensued inevitably wore within themselves the seeds of a new war. On the contrary, by examining in particular the detente efforts of the Twenties, the most recent historiography often emphasizes how the inevitability of the authoritarian turn of Twenties and Thirties, which led to the Second World War, has often been exaggerated by historians and that different paths could have been undertaken. KW - France KW - Germany KW - Treaty of Versailles KW - First World War Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1412/82730 SN - 1120-9526 VL - 19 SP - 47 EP - 58 PB - Società editrice il Mulino CY - Bologna ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Köppen, Paul T1 - Weil nicht wahr sein kann, was nicht wahr sein darf BT - Zur Verweigerung einer quellenbasierten Diskussion über Heinrich Brünings Sparpolitik JF - Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte N2 - Die Debatte geht weiter: Gab es 1930/31 ernst zu nehmende Kreditangebote der französischen Regierung an das Deutsche Reich? Versäumte es die Reichsregierung unter Kanzler Heinrich Brüning aus politisch- revisionistischem Kalkül heraus bewusst, diese Angebote auszuloten? War die eiserne Sparpolitik der ersten beiden Präsidialkabinette also nicht die alternativlose Konsequenz ökonomischer Zwänge, sondern die logische Folge davon unabhängiger außen- und gesellschaftspolitischer Prämissen? Paul Köppen, der diese Debatte im Juli 2014 in den Vierteljahrsheften für Zeitgeschichte eröffnet hat, antwortet seinen Kritikern, präzisiert seine Argumentation und stellt seine Thesen in den weiteren Kontext der aktuellen Diskussion um die Chancen und Belastungen der Zeit zwischen den Weltkriegen. N2 - In spite of indicative archival material and in clear opposition to the current state of research, the highly influential economic historian Knut Borchardt claims in 2015’s spring issue of the VfZ that there never were any serious French loan offers to Germany in 1930. By doing so, Borchardt adheres to his by now rather traditional interpretation of Heinrich Brüning’s chancellorship as a period of “predicaments” in which the policy of austerity was ultimately the only possible alternative. Yet it is, most notably, Brüning’s personal statements in contemporary sources and in his later comments which do offer quite different interpretations. Finally, Borchardt has to accept that other historians are willing to take those accounts seriously. KW - Borchardt-Kontroverse KW - Weltwirtschaftskrise Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/vfzg-2015-0034 SN - 2196-7121 SN - 0042-5702 VL - 63 IS - 4 SP - 569 EP - 579 ER -