 Citing Fritz Fischer, he argued that the foreign policy of the Third Reich was the same as those of the Weimar Republic and the Second Reich.Moreover, in a partial break with his view of German history advocated in "The Course of German History", he argued that Hitler was not just a normal German leader but also a normal Western leader.As a normal Western leader, Hitler was no better or worse than Stresemann, Chamberlain or Daladier.