Hermann Lutz (1881–1965) was a German civil servant and writer.
From 1919 to 1937, Lutz worked for the Kriegsschuldreferat (
War Guilt Section) within the
German Foreign Ministry
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. He contributed the section on 'The German Case' to the 'War Guilt' article in the 1929 ''
Encyclopædia Britannica
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'', and wrote ''Die europäische Politik in der Julikrise 1914'' (1930) for the
Reichstag Commission investigating the cause of the
First World War
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and the German defeat. His papers are held at the
Hoover Institution
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archives at
Stanford University
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.
Overview of the Hermann Lutz papers
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Works
* ''An appeal to British fair play''. Berlin: Deutsche Verlags Gesellschaft für Politik und Geschichte, 1924.
* 'E.D. Morel; eine Biographie', in Hermann Lutz, ed., ''E.D. Morel. Der Mann und sein Werk; ein Gedenkbuch'', Berlin: Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft für Politik und Geschichte m.b.H., 1925.
* (ed. with G. P. Gooch
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and Harold Temperley
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Overview
Temperley was born in Cambridg ...
) ''Die Britischen Amtlichen Dokumente über den Ursprung des Weltkrieges, 1898–1914'', Berlin: Verlagsgesellschaft für Politik und Geschichte, 1926-1928. 11 vol. in 24.
* ''Lord Grey und der Weltkrieg, ein Schlüssel zum Verständnis der britischen amtlichen Aktenpublikation über den Kriegsausbruch 1914'', 1927. Translated by E. W. Dickes as ''Lord Grey and the World War'', 1928.
* ''German-French unity, basis for European peace'', Chicago: H. Regnery Co., 1957
See also
* Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles
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* Causes of World War I
The identification of the causes of World War I remains a debated issue. World War I began in the Balkans on July 28, 1914, and hostilities Armistice of 11 November 1918, ended on November 11, 1918, leaving World War I casualties, 17 million de ...
* Centre for the Study of the Causes of the War
* Commission of Responsibilities
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* Fischer thesis
Historians writing about the origins of World War I have differed over the relative emphasis they place upon the factors involved. Changes in historical arguments over time are in part related to the delayed availability of classified historical ...
* Historiography of the causes of World War I
* War guilt question
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1881 births
1965 deaths
German male non-fiction writers
20th-century German historians
20th-century German civil servants
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