CONTENTS

1. Cover
2. Title page
3. Copyright page
4. Plates
5. Maps
6. Preface to the Fourth Edition
7. Preface to the Third Edition
8. Preface to the Second Edition
9. Acknowledgements
10. 1 The Course of German History
11. Part I: A Divided Society
    1. 2 The Weimar Republic
       1. Germany in the Early Twentieth Century
       2. The ‘Last Revolution from Above’
       3. The Incomplete Revolution of November 1918
       4. The Weimar Constitution and the Treaty of Versailles
       5. Political Unrest and Economic Chaos
       6. Apparent Stabilization, 1924–1929
       7. The Golden Twenties? Society and Culture in the Weimar Republic
    2. 3 The Collapse of Democracy and the Rise of Hitler
       1. The Flawed Compromise
       2. The Rise of the NSDAP
       3. Economic Crises and the Collapse of Democracy
       4. Hitler’s Path to Power
    3. 4 A ‘National Community’?
       1. Gleichschaltung and Hitler’s State
       2. Society, Culture and Everyday Life
       3. Economy and Society
       4. The Radicalization of the Regime
    4. 5 War, Extermination and Defeat
       1. Mass Extermination and the Holocaust
       2. Resistance and Defeat
12. Part II: The Divided Nation
    1. 6 Occupation and Division, 1945–1949
       1. The Allies and the Framework of Political Life
       2. The Democratization of German Politics?
       3. Denazification and Re-education
       4. Economic Revival and Transformation
       5. The Cold War and the Division of Germany
    2. 7 Crystallization and Consolidation, 1949–1961
       1. The Constitution and Political System of the Federal Republic
       2. The Constitution and Political System of the GDR
       3. The Problem of Missed Opportunities, 1949–1961
       4. Foreign Relations
       5. Adenauer’s Germany
       6. Ulbricht’s Germany, 1949–1961
    3. 8 Transformation and the ‘Established Phase’, 1961–1988
       1. East Germany in the 1960s
       2. Ostpolitik and Mutual Recognition
       3. West Germany in the 1970s and 1980s
       4. East Germany under Honecker
    4. 9 Diverging Societies
       1. Standards of Living
       2. Education and Socialization in the Two Germanies
       3. Women and the Family in the Two Germanies
    5. 10 Politics and the State
       1. The Political System of the GDR
       2. The West German Political System
       3. The State, the Army and Law and Order
    6. 11 Dissent and Opposition
       1. Dissent and Opposition in East Germany
       2. Mass Protest and Isolated Intellectuals
       3. The Church and the Proliferation of Dissent
       4. Dissent and Opposition in West Germany
    7. 12 Diverging Cultures and National Identities?
       1. Aspects of Cultural Life
       2. The Divided Nation: National Identities and Historical Consciousness in the Two Germanies
       3. Changing Patterns of Political Culture
       4. German National Identities and Political Cultures: Conclusions
    8. 13 The East German Revolution and the End of the Postwar Era
       1. The ‘Gentle Revolution’, 26 August–9 November 1989
       2. The Opening of the Floodgates and the Deflected Revolution
       3. The End of a Divided Nation?
13. Part III: The Divided Century
    1. 14 The Berlin Republic
       1. Social and Political Transformations
       2. United Germany in broader context
       3. The Unexpected Afterlife of the GDR
       4. The Past that Still Refuses to Pass Away?
    2. 15 Tension and Transformation in Twentieth-century Germany
       1. The Role of the Third Reich
       2. The Double Transformation: The Two Germanies, 1945–1989
       3. The View from the Twenty-first Century
14. Select Bibliography of English-language Works
    1. General Works Covering All or a Substantial Part of the Period
    2. Weimar Germany and the Third Reich
    3. East and West Germany 1945‒1990
    4. Unification and Germany since 1990
15. Index
16. End User License Agreement

List of Illustrations

1. Chapter 02
   1. Map 2.1 The Versailles settlement, 1919.
2. Chapter 03
   1. Plate 1 Unemployed dock-workers in January 1931.
   2. Map 3.1 The electoral performance of the NSDAP, 1924–1932.
3. Chapter 04
   1. Map 4.1 The Reichstag elections, 5 March 1933.
   2. Plate 2 Hitler’s triumphal arrival to popular acclaim in his former home town of Linz during the 1938 Anschluss of Austria (which subsequently represented itself as ‘Hitler’s first victim’).
   3. Map 4.2 Territorial annexation, 1935–1939.
4. Chapter 05
   1. Map 5.1 The partition of Poland, 1939.
   2. Map 5.2 Hitler’s empire by autumn 1942.
   3. Plate 3 German soldiers execute ‘partisans’, Lithuania, 1944.
   4. Plate 4 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, who, if they survived the misery, hunger and sickness of ghetto life, would ultimately be transported and murdered in an extermination camp.
   5. Map 5.3 Major concentration camps, including extermination centres.
   6. Map 5.4 Proportions of Europe’s Jewish population murdered in the Final Solution.
5. Chapter 06
   1. Map 6.1 The division of Germany after 1945.
6. Chapter 07
   1. Plate 5 West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer looks uncomfortable on a visit to Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, in August 1961, a week after the Berlin Wall was erected.
7. Chapter 08
   1. Plate 6 Schoolchildren on their weekly ‘day in industry’ in the ‘people’s own factory’, with which their school is twinned, admire the progress board in the ‘competition for fulfilment of the plan’.
8. Chapter 12
   1. Plate 7 Couple watching television, Er magazine cover, 1952.
9. Chapter 13
   1. Plate 8 East Berliners hack out mementoes from the now defunct Berlin Wall, in the spring of 1990.
   2. Map 13.1 United Germany, 1990.
10. Chapter 14
    1. Plate 9 Demonstration against rising rents and gentrification, Kreuzberg, Berlin, June 2013.
    2. Plate 10 CDU poster ‘Wir haben mehr zu bieten’ (‘We have more to offer’) showing CDU candidates Vera Lengsfeld (formerly Vera Wollenberger) and Angela Merkel. © Getty Images.
    3. Plate 11 ‘Stolpersteine’ – pavement ‘cobblestones to stumble over’, commemorating former Jewish inhabitants who were deported and murdered by the Nazis.
    4. Plate 12 The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, in the heart of Berlin, spreading over several acres between the Brandenburg Gate and the site of Hitler’s bunker, and providing an inescapable and controversial reminder of the Jewish victims of Nazism.

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