LIST OF FIGURES
LIST OF MAPS
PREFACE
1 THE FOUNDERS' GENERATION, 1871-1890
2 WILHELMENIAN GERMANY, 1890-1914
3 WORLD WAR I, 1914-1918
4 REVOLUTION, INFLATION, AND PUTSCHES, 1918-1923
5 FOOLS' GOLD: THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC, 1924-1930
6 FROM AUTHORITARIANISM TO TOTALITARIANISM, 1930-1938
7 CONQUEST, DEATH, AND DEFEAT, 1938-1945
8 "CONDOMINIUM OF THE ALLIED POWERS," 1945-1949
9 THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, 1949-1990
10 THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC, 1949-1990
11 EUPHORIA AND DISILLUSIONMENT, 1990-2005
12 THE MERKEL ERA, 2005-2017
13 GLOBAL DRAMA AND NATIONAL MALAISE, 2017-2024
14 CONCLUSION
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
INDEX
Biography
Dietrich Orlow is Professor (emeritus) of History at Boston University, USA. His primary research and teaching interests are the history of modern Germany and the comparative political history of Western Europe since 1945. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including a two-volume history of the Nazi Party. His latest scholarly book is The PHS Under Ulbricht and Honecker: The Perseverance of a Stalinist Institution (2020).
