TY - JOUR A1 - Angelow, Jürgen T1 - Accomplices with reservations : German diplomats and the preparation of the Polish campaign of September 1939 N2 - This paper examines the role of the conservative foreign policy establishment in the decision-making process leading to the Nazi invasion of Poland in September 1939. Post-war statements by German diplomats portrayed the conservative elite as reluctant participants in Hitler's drive to war. However, an examination of the foreign policy views of German conservatives reveals a significant degree of convergence with Nazi goals in their desire to revise Germany's post-Versailles borders with Poland. In order to understand the role of the German diplomatic elite, it is also necessary to understand the degree to which foreign policy was subject to the same "polycracy" of decision-making instances that characterised the structure of the "Third Reich" in general. While Hitler had relied on the conservative elites, including the Foreign Ministry and the military, their influence on decision-making was waning by 1938-1939 Y1 - 2004 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Angelow, Jürgen T1 - Conservative magazines between the empire and the dictatorship : five case studies Y1 - 2004 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Angelow, Jürgen T1 - Contexts of differing interpretation - On the reception of Friedrich II in a divided Germany Y1 - 2004 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Angelow, Jürgen T1 - Kontexte ungleicher Deutung : zur Rezeption Friedrichs II. im geteilten Deutschland KW - Friedrich (Preußen KW - König KW - II.) KW - Preußen KW - Rezeption KW - Geschichtsschreibung KW - Deutschland KW - Deutschland KW - Friedrich II. Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-7410 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Angelow, Jürgen T1 - The "event of war in Serbia" as a volition therapy : operative planning, political mentalities and visions before and at the beginning of the First World War Y1 - 2004 SN - 0204-8906 ER -