<Dd> Few historians agreed wholly with his (Fischer's) thesis of a premeditated war to achieve aggressive foreign policy aims, but it was generally accepted that Germany's share of responsibility was larger than that of the other great powers . </Dd> <P> Regarding historians inside Germany, she adds, "There was' a far - reaching consensus about the special responsibility of the German Reich' in the writings of leading historians, though they differed in how they weighted Germany's role . </P>

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