... literature of Ranke or Meinecke. Often repetitious in a way that does little for his argument, Kehr's literary style is often terse, dense and difficult to follow. It has been said that Kehr wrote in language more usually found in Marxist tracts than his own SPD-sympathetic sector, notably when he was pursuing his thesis that all foreign policy decisions were subordinate to domestic socio-economic factors. These are all factors that, to me, once drawn to my attention, reduced the effectiveness of his arguments, some of which, thanks to their language, are unpersuasive as it is. Kehr's thesis regarding the domestic primacy over foreign policy is that a foreign policy is a product of its hinterland. Kehr believed that one can not only look at the antagonists in a foreign policy situation, but that the social structure of the Reich must also come under scrutiny. Claiming it is a simple, yet often ...

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