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| Maps | |
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| Preface | |
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| The Founders' Generation: 1871-1890 | |
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| The Fabric of Society: Economic and Political Power Struggles | |
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| The Kulturkampf | |
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| Im Mittelpunkt: Ludwig Windthorst (1821-1891) | |
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| Economic and Social Developments | |
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| Im Mittelpunkt: Gerson Bleichroder (1822-1893) | |
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| Social Legislation and Antisocialist Laws | |
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| Foreign Relations | |
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| The End of the Era and Bismarck's Dismissal | |
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| Wilhelminian Germany, 1890-1914 | |
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| Parties, Lobbies, and Patriotic Organizations | |
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| Im Mittelpunkt: Eduard Bernstein (1850-1932) | |
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| Political Issues and Personalities | |
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| Economic Developments | |
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| Literature, Art, and Society | |
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| Im Mittelpunkt: Theodor Fontane (1819-1898) | |
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| Foreign Relations | |
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| Germany on the Eve of World War I | |
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| The First World War, 1914-1918 | |
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| The Outbreak of War | |
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| Military Developments | |
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| Im Mittelpunkt: Erich Ludendorff (1865-1937) | |
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| Domestic Policies: Reform, Repression, and Revolution | |
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| Im Mittelpunkt: Georg von Hertling (1843-1919) | |
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| War and Society | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Revolution, Inflation, and Putsches: The Search for a new Consensus, 1918-1923 | |
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| Revolution | |
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| Im Mittelpunkt: Friedrich Ebert (1871-1925) | |
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| The Weimar Constitution | |
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| Im Mittelpunkt: Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919) | |
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| The Treaty of Versailles | |
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| Economic and Social Problems | |
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| Counterrevolution | |
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| Foreign Relations | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Fools' Gold: The Weimar Republic, 1924-1930 | |
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| The Search for the Elusive Consensus | |
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| Im Mittelpunkt: Wilhelm Marx (1883-1946) | |
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| Economic and Social Developments | |
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| Weimar Culture | |
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| Im Mittelpunkt: Kurt Weill (1900-1950) | |
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| Foreign Relations | |
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| The Collapse of the Economy and the End of Parliamentary Democracy | |
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| From Authoritarianism to Totalitarianism, 1930-1938 | |
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| The Rule of the New Conservatives | |
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| Im Mittelpunkt: Heinrich Bruning (1885-1970) | |
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| The Nazis' Rise to Power | |
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| Gleichschaltung: The Establishment of Nazi Totalitarianism | |
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| Im Mittelpunkt: Ernst Rohm (1887-1934) | |
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| Foreign Relations | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Conquest, Death, and Defeat, 1938-1945 | |
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| Further Growth of the Nazi Fuhrer State | |
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| Im Mittelpunkt: Gertrud Scholtz-Klink (1902-) | |
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| Triumph and Fall | |
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| Nazi Rule in Europe | |
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| The Holocaust | |
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| Im Mittelpunkt: Viktor Klemperer (1881-1960) | |
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| Economy and Society | |
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| The End of the Third Reich | |
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| "Condominium of the Allied Powers," 1945-1949 | |
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| The German Resistance: Strengths and Delusions | |
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| Allied Visions and Plans, 1941-1945 | |
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| Im Mittelpunkt: Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) | |
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| The Immediate Legacy of the Third Reich: The Reality of "Zero Hour" | |
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| Reparations and Economic Recovery | |
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| "Exorcising the Evil": De-Nazification and Re-education | |
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| Revival of Administrative, Political, and Cultural Life | |
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| The Cold War and the Division of Germany | |
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| Im Mittelpunkt: Carlo Schmid (1896-1979) | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-1990 | |
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| The Adenauer Era, 1949-1963 | |
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| The Changing of the Guard, 1963-1974 | |
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| Culture and Society | |
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| Troubled 1970s and 1980s | |
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| Im Mittelpunkt: Gunter Grass (1927-) | |
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| Im Mittelpunkt: Rita Sussmuth (1937-) | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The German Democratic Republic, 1949-1990 | |
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| The Quest for Viability | |
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| Im Mittelpunkt: Erich Mielke (1907-2000) | |
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| East Germany in the 1960s | |
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| Culture and Society | |
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| Conflicting Signals: East Germany under Erich Honecker, 1971-1989 | |
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| Im Mittelpunkt: Christa Wolf (1929-) | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Germany Since Reunification: Euphoria and Disillusionment, 1990--Present | |
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| Political Developments | |
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| Im Mittelpunkt: Roman Herzog (1934-) | |
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| Im Mittelpunkt: Angela Merkel (1954-) | |
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| Economic and Social Developments | |
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| Foreign Policy | |
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| German Society at the End of the Century | |
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| Problems and Prospects | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Index | |