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Dreams and Delusions, by Fritz Stern (Knopf, 323 pp., $19.95)

Fritz Stern is perhaps the most respected representative of the émigré view of German history first popularized by academic refugees from Hitler. This view, briefly stated, assumes political and cultural continuity between earlier German history and the Nazi epoch, with earlier catastrophes leading almost inescapably to the Third Reich.

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Dreams and Delusions, by Fritz Stern (Knopf, 323 pp., $19.95)

Fritz Stern is perhaps the most respected representative of the émigré view of German history first popularized by academic refugees from Hitler. This view, briefly stated, assumes political and cultural continuity between earlier German history and the Nazi epoch, with earlier catastrophes leading almost inescapably to the Third Reich.