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Was (or Was ... in the UK edition) is a WFA nominated 1992 novel by American author Geoff Ryman , focusing on themes by L. Frank Baum 's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , and the musical film version . Ranging across time and space from the 1860s Kansas to the ...

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And though perspective was gained, was not something lost because the authors necessarily lacked a personal acquaintance with the life and the atmosphere of the times and with the historical figures about which they wrote?

But into its short life was packed the most cataclysmic series of events that Western civilisation has ever known.

Hitherto the archives of a great state, even when it was defeated in war and its government overthrown by revolution, as happened to Germany and Russia in 1918, were preserved by it, and only those documents which served the interests of the subsequent ruling regime were ultimately published.

It is a unique source of concise information for the period between August 14, 1939, and September 24, 1942, when he was Chief of the Army General Staff and in daily contact with Hitler and the other leaders of Nazi Germany.

German Navy from April 1945, when they were found, back to 1868, when the modern German Navy was founded.

Finally in 1955, ten years after their capture, thanks to the initiative of the American Historical Association and the generosity of a couple of private foundations, the Alexandria papers were opened and a pitifully small group of scholars, with an inadequate staff and equipment, went to work to sift through them and photograph them before the government, which was in a great hurry in the matter, returned them to Germany.

The text of other documents published in a fifteen-volume series on the twelve subsequent Nuremberg trials was also of value, though many papers and much testimony were omitted.

German military officers and party and government officials and their subsequent testimony under oath at the various postwar trials, which provide material the like of which was never available, I believe, from such sources after previous wars.

Germany during the Nazi time, journalists and diplomats, really knew of what was going on behind the facade of the Third Reich.

Nothing more recent than the Napoleonic era, I was told, should be tackled by writers of history.

But was this not principally because it took that long for the pertinent documents to come to light and furnish them with the authentic material they needed?

The curtain was rung down on that phase of history, at least, by the sudden invention of the hydrogen bomb, of the ballistic missile and of rockets that can be aimed to hit the moon.

The Weimar Republic, it seemed obvious to almost everyone, was about to expire.

Adolf Hitler, leader of the National Socialists, the largest political party in Germany, was demanding for himself the chancellorship of the democratic Republic he had sworn to destroy.

There were reports that Schleicher, in collusion with General Kurt von Hammerstein, the Commander in Chief of the Army, was preparing a putsch with the support of the Potsdam garrison for the purpose of arresting the President and establishing a military dictatorship.