According to this Wikipedia article on the German Empire:
- The German Empire was for Hans-Ulrich Wehler a strange mixture of highly successful capitalist industrialisation and socio-economic modernisation on the one hand, and of surviving pre-industrial institutions, power relations and traditional cultures on
the other...Traditional, aristocratic, premodern society battled an emerging capitalist, bourgeois, modernising society...The catastrophic German politics between 1914 and 1945 are interpreted in terms of a delayed modernisation of its political
structures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Empire#Legacy
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