This book explores the making of British policy toward Germany in the aftermath of its defeat in the Great War. Douglas Newton shows how British pressures on Germany during the formative months of the new republic were crucial in debilitating the German Revolution and the faltering Weimar democracy. Using a vast array of private papers, Dr Newton reveals the inner workings of British policymaking the longstanding reluctance to make any commitment to German democratization the overwhelmingly hostile response to the socialistled German Revolution the shunning and starvation of the new socialist government the support for the resuscitation of a degree of militarism to deal with Bolshevism inside Germany and the battle to achieve the only real concession made to Germany the minor relaxation of the economic blockade, in March 1919, to allow emergency food relief. British policy towards the new Germany was forged in an atmosphere of great tension. The moderates, especially strong in the intelligence services, who recommended policies of reconciliation, faced powerful ultrapatriotic and economic pressure groups, supported by the popular press who had long insisted upon a policy of aggrandizement in order to smother anticipated unrest in postwar Britain. Britains decisionmakers vacillated for months. With many misgivings, they eventually opted for a harsh treaty, in spite of an emerging consensus among the intelligence experts in favour of a moderate peace to consolidate...

Binding: Hardcover;496 pages; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Classification: HBJD1; Weight: 843 g; Dimensions: 224 x 147 x 30

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