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The revisionist scholarship, which emphasized Prussia’s positive achievements-including an incorruptible civil service, an efficient bureaucracy, an enlightened law code, and a “literacy rate unequaled in Europe” - sought to rehabilitate the reputation of the Prussian state. The traditional post-war view came to see Prussia as an embodiment of militarism, illiberalism, intolerance, and authoritarianism, which culminated with the twelve years of Nazi dictatorship. By passing judgment upon it, the Allies were excising Prussia symbolically from the landscape of Europe. According to Christopher Clark, “Its history had become a nightmare that weighed upon the minds of the living.” Since 1945, two schools of thought have developed on Prussian history. ![]() On the 25th of February 1947, representatives of the Allied occupation authorities met in Berlin to sign a law abolishing the state of Prussia.
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