The book offered to the reader is written by the German Marxist historian Werner Bertold, known for his sharp speeches against the bourgeois falsifiers of history. It is devoted to the scientific analysis of the ideology of German imperialism in the field of history, the study of topical problems of West German bourgeois historiography and its features. The author directs the main fire of his reasoned, politically acute criticism against the most prominent pillars of West German historical science - Gerhard Ritter and Friedrich Meinek. Of great interest in Bertold's book is an analysis of the directions of German bourgeois historiography on the essence of German fascism.