List of Plates viiList of Maps ixPreface to the Fifth Edition xPreface to the Fourth Edition xiPreface to the Third Edition xiiPreface to the Second Edition xiiiAcknowledgments xv1 The Course of German History 1Part I A Divided Society: The Weimar Republic and the Third Reich 132 The Weimar Republic: Origins and Orientations 153 The Collapse of Democracy and the Rise of Hitler 424 A 'National Community'? State, Economy and Society, 1933-1939 605 War, Extermination and Defeat 85Part II The Divided Nation: The Two Germanies, 1945-1990 1196 Occupation and Division, 1945-49 1217 Crystallization and Consolidation, 1949-61 1528 Transformation and the 'Established Phase', 1961-88 1759 Diverging Societies 19510 Politics and the State 21411 Dissent and Opposition 23112 Diverging Cultures and National Identities? 25213 The East German Revolution and the End of the Postwar Era 274Part III The Divided Century 29714 The Berlin Republic 29915 Tension and Transformation in Twentieth-Century Germany 325Notes 344Select Bibliography of English-Language Works 362Index 371
Mary Fulbrook, FBA is Professor of German History at University College London (UCL), UK. A graduate of Cambridge and Harvard Universities, she is the author or editor of numerous books, including Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice, for which she won the 2019 Wolfson History Prize, and A Small Town Near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust, winner of the 2012 Fraenkel Prize. Professor Fulbrook has served as Executive Dean of the UCL Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences, Academic Director of the UCL European Institute, founding Joint Editor of the journal German History, and Chair of the German History Society.