ABSTRACT

In this text, the author draws together his review essays on the political, economic, cultural and social history of Germany through war and reunification. This book provides a study of how historians - mainly German, American, British, and French - have provided a series of differing and often conflicting readings of the German past in recent years. It also presents a reconsideration of German history in the light of the recent decline and fall of the German Democratic Republic, collapse of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany.

part |4 pages

Part I Parade of the grand narratives

chapter 1|7 pages

TOWARDS UNIFICATION

chapter 2|11 pages

WHATEVER BECAME OF THE SONDERWEG?

chapter 3|21 pages

NIPPERDEY’S NINETEENTH CENTURY

chapter 4|10 pages

FROM UNIFICATION TO WORLD WAR

chapter 5|7 pages

THE VIEW FROM FRANCE

part |4 pages

Part II Patterns of authority and revolt

part |4 pages

Part III Ideological origins of Nazism

chapter 10|4 pages

THE DYNAMICS OF VIOLENCE

chapter 11|26 pages

IN SEARCH OF GERMAN SOCIAL DARWINISM

chapter 12|4 pages

FROM RACIAL HYGIENE TO AUSCHWITZ

part |4 pages

Part IV Faces of the Third Reich

chapter 16|5 pages

THE DECEPTIONS OF ALBERT SPEER

chapter 17|5 pages

CHURCHILL: THE END OF GLORY?

part |4 pages

Part V Reunification and beyond

chapter 19|4 pages

BEYOND THE HISTORIKERSTREIT

chapter 20|9 pages

REBIRTH OF THE GERMAN RIGHT?

chapter 21|14 pages

AFTER REUNIFICATION