1st Edition
The Burden of German History 1919-45 Essays for the Goethe Institute
List of Contributors
Introduction, Michael Laffan
1 Weimar Culture, Kurt Sontheimer
2. The Culture of Weimar: Models of Decline, Hugh Ridley
3. Blut and Boden Fiction and the Tradition of Popular Reading Culture in Germany, Eda Sagarra
4. The Predicament of the Weimar Republic, Eberhard Jäckel
5. The Weimar Republic between the Second and the Third Reich: Continuity and Discontinuity in the German Question, 1919-33, Imanuel Geiss
6. Weimar and Versailles: German Foreign Policy, 1919-33, Michael Laffan
7. The Breakthrough of the National Socialists as a Mass Movement in the Late Weimar Republic, Hans Mommsen
8. The Failure of the Weimar Republic and the Rise of Hitler, Hans Mommsen
9. Policy and Performance in the Germany Economy, 1925-35: A Comment on the Borchardt Thesis, J. Joseph Lee
10. Images of Fascism: Visualization and Aestheticization in the Third Reich, Peter Labanyi
11. Germany’s Way into the Second World War, Eberhard Jäckel
12. The War, German Society and Internal Resistance, Peter Hoffmann
Biography
Michael Laffan






