Poznámka 17

 A. J. P. Taylor, The Course of German History: A Survey of the Development of Germany since 1815, New York 1946, str. 189–190. [Pozn. překl.: Abychom umožnili čtenáři lépe sledovat Whitovu analýzu, otiskujeme zde citovaný úryvek v původním znění: The Republic created by the Constituent Assembly at Weimar lasted in theory for fourteen years, from 1919 to 1933. Its real life was shorter. Its first four years were consumed in the political and economic confusion which followed the Four Years’ War; in its last three years there was a temporary dictatorship, half-cloaked in legality, which reduced the republic to a sham long before it was openly overthrown. Only for six years did Germany lead a life ostensibly democratic, ostensibly pacific; but in the eyes of many foreign observers these six years appeared as normal, the „true“ Germany, from which the preceding centuries and the subsequent decade of German history were an aberration. A deeper investigation might have found for these six years other causes than the beauty of the German character.]