 Disappointed by the "unjust peace" following World War I, Italian irredentism and French nationalism ('chauvinism'), he was no longer interested in Romance research, partly even giving up contacts with colleagues from these countries.In an article ("Bekenntnisse und Erkenntnisse" 1919), he gives some oral history insights into his youth and historic events of that time as well as his viewpoint of the outcome of World War I.

Hugo Schuchardt is one of the most eminent linguists of the Germanic tradition within Romance Philology.Today, of course, his contribution is mainly of historiographic interest.