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The Lost Paradigm: Frederick II, Prussia, and July 20th

It would be difficult to find three subjects that, in combination, are as unappealing to the average German historical consciousness: Frederick the Great, a forerunner of Bismarck and Hitler; Prussia, the symbol of evil in German history; and the July 20 plot, which, although commemorated each year on a small scale, is somehow an embarrassing reminder of those Prussian Junkers. The instinctive aversion to these three concepts has no doubt something to do with the West German post-war identity, from which the term "Prussia" was deleted.

The eradication of Prussia was not simply a passive acceptance of the inevitable—identical with...