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The article concerns the topics and conceptual approaches of German historiography of World War I. The author analyses research papers focusing on origins of World War I, state of social institutions in war, fronts history, everyday life on the frontlines and in the rear, specifics of war propaganda, historical biography studies and postwar world. The article also describes World War I place in the collective memory of German-speaking nations. This war not only became the precursor of German Nazism, but also made the interwar period too short. Therefore historiosophical understanding of World War I lessons remains an important task of interdisciplinary socio-historical research.