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Why did Bismarck's new German State degenerate into Hitler's Third Reich? What happened to Europe's leading industrial nation - cultural heirs to Kant, Goethe, Durer and Bach? How did East and West Germany diverge after 1945? This study explores German social mores, political structures and national psyche over several centuries.

Table of Contents

List of maps
Introduction by Professor Dr. Konrad Jarausch
Preface
PART I
WILHELMIAN PRELUDE 1890–1914
1. About peace and progress
2. A society without self-confidence
3. Ship without a rudder
PART II
THE GERMAN DRAMA, 1914–45
4. War
5. The November republic
6. The decision
7. Life in the Third Reich
8. The ultimate crime for the ultimate delusion
PART III
THE GERMANS SINCE 1945
9. The return of the citizen
10. A new start and fresh anxieties
11. An end, a beginning – the Germans 1989–90
Epilogue: Germany - a Drama of tragedy enacted on the European stage of reason
Translator’s postscript
Index of Names

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 10/1/2009 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719080869, 978-0719080869
      ISBN10: 071908086X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Why did Bismarck's new German State degenerate into Hitler's Third Reich? What happened to Europe's leading industrial nation - cultural heirs to Kant, Goethe, Durer and Bach? How did East and West Germany diverge after 1945? This study explores German social mores, political structures and national psyche over several centuries.

      Table of Contents

      List of maps
      Introduction by Professor Dr. Konrad Jarausch
      Preface
      PART I
      WILHELMIAN PRELUDE 1890–1914
      1. About peace and progress
      2. A society without self-confidence
      3. Ship without a rudder
      PART II
      THE GERMAN DRAMA, 1914–45
      4. War
      5. The November republic
      6. The decision
      7. Life in the Third Reich
      8. The ultimate crime for the ultimate delusion
      PART III
      THE GERMANS SINCE 1945
      9. The return of the citizen
      10. A new start and fresh anxieties
      11. An end, a beginning – the Germans 1989–90
      Epilogue: Germany - a Drama of tragedy enacted on the European stage of reason
      Translator’s postscript
      Index of Names

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