Contents

PART I. TEN MEN

KRONENBERG

November 9, 1638

November 9, 1938

  1. TEN MEN

  2. THE LIVES MEN LEAD

  3. HITLER AND I

  4. “WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE?”

  5. THE JOINERS

  6. THE WAY TO STOP COMMUNISM

  7. “WE THINK WITH OUR BLOOD”

  8. THE ANTI-SEMITIC SWINDLE

  9. “EVERYBODY KNEW.” “NOBODY KNEW”

10. “WE CHRISTIANS HAD THE DUTY”

11. THE CRIMES OF THE LOSERS

12. “THAT’S THE WAY WE ARE”

13. BUT THEN IT WAS TOO LATE

14. COLLECTIVE SHAME

15. THE FURIES: HUEINRICH HILDEBRANDT

16. THE FURIES: JOHANN KESSLER

17. THE FURIES: FUROR TEUTONICUS

PART II. THE GERMANS

HEAT WAVE

18. THERE IS NO SUCH THING

19. THE PRESSURE COOKER

20. “PEORIA ÜBER ALLES”

21. NEW BOY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

22. TWO NEW BOYS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

23. “LIKE GOD IN FRANCE”

24. BUT A MAN MUST BELIEVE IN SOMETHING

25. PUSH-BUTTON PANIC

PART III. THEIR CAUSE AND CURE

THE TRIAL

November 9, 1948

26. THE BROKEN STONES

27. THE LIBERATORS

28. THE RE-EDUCATORS RE-EDUCATED

29. THE RELUCTANT PHOENIX

30. BORN YESTERDAY

31. TUG OF PEACE

32. “ARE WE THE SAME AS THE RUSSIANS?”

33. MARX TALKS TO MICHEL

34. THE UNCALCULATED RISK

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

AFTERWORD BY RICHARD J. EVANS