CHAPTER 1 THE FOUNDERS GENERATION: 1871 1890 The Fabric of Society: Economic and Political Power Struggles The Kulturkampf Im Mittelpunkt: Ludwig Windthorst (1821 1891) Economic and Social Developments Im Mittelpunkt: Gerson Bleichrader (1822 1893) Social Legislation and Antisocialist Laws Foreign Relations The End of the Era and Bismarck's Dismissal CHAPTER 2 WILHELMINIAN GERMANY, 1890 1914 Parties, Lobbies, and Patriotic Organizations Im Mittelpunkt: Eduard Bernstein (1850 1932) Political Issues and Personalities Economic Developments Literature, Art, and Society Im Mittelpunkt: Theodor Fontane (1819 1898) Foreign Relations Germany on the Eve of World War I CHAPTER 3 THE FIRST WORLD WAR, 1914 1918 The Outbreak of War Military Developments Im Mittelpunkt: Erich Ludendorff (1865 1937) Domestic Policies: Reform, Repression, and Revolution Im Mittelpunkt: Georg von Hertling (1843 1919) War and Society Conclusion CHAPTER 4 REVOLUTION, INFLATION, AND PUTSCHES:THE SEARCH FOR A NEW CONSENSUS, 1918 1923 Revolution Im Mittelpunkt: Friedrich Ebert (1871 1925) The Weimar Constitution Im Mittelpunkt: Rosa Luxemburg (1870 1919) The Treaty of Versailles Economic and Social Problems Counterrevolution Foreign Relations Conclusion CHAPTER 5 FOOLS GOLD: THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC, 1924 1930 The Search for the Elusive Consensus Im Mittelpunkt: Wilhelm Marx (1883 1946) Economic and Social Developments Weimar Culture Im Mittelpunkt: Kurt Weill (1900 1950) Foreign Relations The Collapse of the Economy and the End of Parliamentary Democracy CHAPTER 6 FROM AUTHORITARIANISM TO TOTALITARIANISM, 1930 1938 The Rule of the New Conservatives Im Mittelpunkt: Heinrich Bruning (1885 1970) The Nazis Rise to Power Gleichschaltung: The Establishment of Nazi Totalitarianism Im Mittelpunkt: Ernst Rahm (1887 1934) Foreign Relations Conclusion CHAPTER 7 CONQUEST, DEATH, AND DEFEAT, 1938 1945 Further Growth of the Nazi FuhrerState Im Mittelpunkt: Gertrud Scholtz-Klink (1902 ) Triumph and Fall Nazi Rule in Europe The Holocaust Im Mittelpunkt: Viktor Klemperer (1881 1960) Economy and Society The End of the Third Reich CHAPTER 8 "CONDOMINIUM OF THE ALLIED POWERS," 1945 1949 The German Resistance: Strengths and Delusions Allied Visions and Plans, 1941 1945 Im Mittelpunkt: Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 1945) The Immediate Legacy of the Third Reich: The Reality of "Zero Hour" Reparations and Economic Recovery "Exorcising the Evil": De-Nazification and Re-education Revival of Administrative, Political, and Cultural Life The Cold War and the Division of Germany Im Mittelpunkt: Carlo Schmid (1896 1979) Conclusion CHAPTER 9 THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, 1949 1990 The Adenauer Era, 1949 1963 The Changing of the Guard, 1963 1974 Culture and Society Troubled 1970s and 1980s Im Mittelpunkt: Gunter Grass (1927 ) Im Mittelpunkt: Rita Sussmuth (1937 ) Conclusion CHAPTER 10 THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC, 1949 1990 The Quest for Viability Im Mittelpunkt: Erich Mielke (1907 2000) East Germany in the 1960s Culture and Society Conflicting Signals: East Germany under Erich Honecker, 1971 1989 Im Mittelpunkt: Christa Wolf (1929 ) Conclusion CHAPTER 11 GERMANY SINCE REUNIFICATION: EUPHORIA AND DISILLUSIONMENT, 1990 PRESENT Po.