CHAPTER 1 THE FOUNDERS' GENERATION: 1871-1890
The Fabric of Society: Economic and Political Power Struggles
The Kulturkampf
Im Mittelpunkt: Ludwig Windthorst (1821-1891)
Economic and Social Developments
Im Mittelpunkt: Gerson Bleichroeder (1822-1893)
Social Legislation and Antisocialist Laws
Foreign Relations
The End of the Era and Bismarck's Dismissal
CHAPTER 2 WILHELMINIAN GERMANY, 1890-1914
Parties, Lobbies, and Patriotic Organizations
Im Mittelpunkt: Eduard Bernstein (1850-1932)
Political Issues and Personalities
Economic Developments
Literature, Art, and Society
Im Mittelpunkt: Theodor Fontane (1819-1898)
Foreign Relations
Germany on the Eve of World War I
CHAPTER 3 THE FIRST WORLD WAR, 1914-1918
The Outbreak of War
Military Developments
Im Mittelpunkt: Erich Ludendorff (1865-1937)
Domestic Policies: Reform, Repression, and Revolution
Im Mittelpunkt: Georg von Hertling (1843-1919)
War and Society
Conclusion
CHAPTER 4 REVOLUTION, INFLATION, AND PUTSCHES:THE SEARCH FOR A NEW CONSENSUS, 1918-1923
Revolution
Im Mittelpunkt: Friedrich Ebert (1871-1925)
The Weimar Constitution
Im Mittelpunkt: Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919)
The Treaty of Versailles
Economic and Social Problems
Counterrevolution
Foreign Relations
Conclusion
CHAPTER 5 FOOLS' GOLD: THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC, 1924-1930
The Search for the Elusive Consensus
Im Mittelpunkt: Wilhelm Marx (1883-1946)
Economic and Social Developments
Weimar Culture
Im Mittelpunkt: Kurt Weill (1900-1950)
Foreign Relations
The Collapse of the Economy and the End of Parliamentary Democracy
CHAPTER 6 FROM AUTHORITARIANISM TO TOTALITARIANISM, 1930-1938
The Rule of the New Conservatives
Im Mittelpunkt: Heinrich Bruning (1885-1970)
The Nazis' Rise to Power
Gleichschaltung: The Establishment of Nazi Totalitarianism
Im Mittelpunkt: Ernst Roehm (1887-1934)
Foreign Relations
Conclusion
CHAPTER 7 CONQUEST, DEATH, AND DEFEAT, 1938-1945
Further Growth of the Nazi FuhrerState
Im Mittelpunkt: Gertrud Scholtz-Klink (1902- )
Triumph and Fall
Nazi Rule in Europe
The Holocaust
Im Mittelpunkt: Viktor Klemperer (1881-1960)
Economy and Society
The End of the Third Reich
CHAPTER 8 CONDOMINIUM OF THE ALLIED POWERS, 1945-1949
The German Resistance: Strengths and Delusions
Allied Visions and Plans, 1941-1945
Im Mittelpunkt: Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)
The Immediate Legacy of the Third Reich: The Reality of Zero Hour
Reparations and Economic Recovery
Exorcising the Evil: De-Nazification and Re-education
Revival of Administrative, Political, and Cultural Life
The Cold War and the Division of Germany
Im Mittelpunkt: Carlo Schmid (1896-1979)
Conclusion
CHAPTER 9 THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, 1949-1990
The Adenauer Era, 1949-1963
The Changing of the Guard, 1963-1974
Culture and Society
Troubled 1970s and 1980s
Im Mittelpunkt: Gunter Grass (1927- )
Im Mittelpunkt: Rita Sussmuth (1937- )
Conclusion
CHAPTER 10 THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC, 1949-1990
The Quest for Viability
Im Mittelpunkt: Erich Mielke (1907-2000)
East Germany in the 1960s
Culture and Society
Conflicting Signals: East Germany under Erich Honecker, 1971-1989
Im Mittelpunkt: Christa Wolf (1929- )
Conclusion
CHAPTER 11 GERMANY SINCE REUNIFICATION: EUPHORIA AND DISILLUSIONMENT, 1990-PRESENT
Political Developments
Im Mittelpunkt: Roman Herzog (1934- )
Im Mittelpunkt: Angela Merkel (1954- )
Economic and Social Developments
Foreign Policy
German Society at the Beginning of the New Millennium
Problems and Prospects
CHAPTER 12 CONCLUSION
Germany, 1816-1866
Germany, 1866-1918
Germany's Colonial Possessions, 1914
Military Operations of World War I
Germany After WWI
Germany's Expansion, 1933-1939
Military Operations of World War II: The German Offensives, 1939-1942
Military Operations of World War II: The Allied Offensives, 1943-1945
East and West Germany, 1945-1990
Germany Since 1990
