Introduction, by Franz A.J. Szabo and Charles Ingrao I. The Middle Ages, Introduced by Klaus Zernack Before Colonization: Christendom at the Slav Frontier and Pagan Resistance, by Christian Lübke Medieval Colonization in East Central Europe, by Jan M. Piskorski The Most Unique Crusader State: The Teutonic Order in the Development of the Political Culture of Northeastern Europe during the Middle Ages, by Paul W. Knoll An Amicable Enmity: Some Peculiarities in Teutonic-Balt Relations in the Chronicles of the Baltic Crusades, by Rasa Mazeika II. The Early Modern Period, Introduced by Charles Ingrao Absolutism and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Central and Eastern Europe, by Michael G. Müller German Writers, Power and Collapse: The Emergence of Polenliteratur in Eighteenth-Century Germany, by David Pickus German Colonization in the Banat and Transylvania in the Eighteenth Century, by Karl A.

Roider and Robert Forrest III. The Long Nineteenth Century, Introduced by Lothar Höbelt Changing Meanings of "German" in Habsburg Central Europe, by Pieter M. Judson Controversies on German Cultural Orientation in the "Croatian National Renewal": German Language and Culture in Croatian Everyday Life, 1835-1848, by Drago Roksandic "Germans" in the Habsburg Empire: Language, Imperial Ideology, National Identity, and Assimilation, by Arnold Suppan IV. The Age of Total War, Introduced by Ronald Smelser Part 1: German Aims in World War I German Military Occupation and Culture on the Eastern Front in World War I, by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius Comrades, Enemies, Vicims: The Prussian/German Army and the Ostvölker, by Dennis Showalter Part 2: The Successor States and Their German Minorities From "verloren gehen" to "verloren bleiben": Changing German Discourses on Nation and Nationalism in Poznania, by Elizabeth A. Drummond The National State and the Territorial Parish in Interwar Poland, by James Bjork Interwar Poland and the Problem of Polish-speaking Germans, by Richard Blanke The Birth of a Sudeten German Nobility, 1918-1938, by Eagle Glassheim Part 3: Nazi Germany and the War in the East Askaris in the "Wild East": The Deployment of Auxiliaries and the Implementation of Nazi Racial Policy in Lublin District, by Peter Black A Blind Eye and Dirty Hands: The Wehrmacht's Crimes in the East, 1941-1945, by Geoffrey P. Megargee Nazi Foreign Policy towards Southeastern Europe, 1933-1945, by Béla Bodo The Second World War and Its Aftermath: Ethnic German Communities in the East, by John C. Swanson V. The Era of European Integration, Introduced by Günter Bischof Austrian and Czech Historical Memory of World War II, National Identity, and European Integration, by Günter Bischof and Martin David Austro-Czechoslovak Relations and the Expulsion of the Germans, by Emilia Hrabovec West Germany and the Lost German East: Two Narratives, by William Glenn Gray Conclusion The "Germans and the East": Back to Normality--But What Is Normal?, by Eva Hahn and Hans Henning Hahn Contributors Index.