ABSTRACT
After World War I had ended, politicians and scholars on both sides of the Atlantic began a search that has continued until our own times for the persons or developments that had been “guilty” of starting the conflict. In the treaty that ended the war, Germany was forced to acknowledge its responsibility for unleashing the conflict, but during the 1920s most Germans-but also many scholars in the Allied countries-supported the “revisionist” view that the German government had played only a minor part in the outbreak of the war.
