A History of Germany 1918 – 2014

Mary Fulbrook is Dean of the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences at University College London (UCL). She was founding Joint Editor of German History, and has served as Chair of the German History Society as well as Chair of the Modern History Section of the British Academy. Her books include Anatomy of a Dictatorship: Inside the GDR, 1949 1989 (1995), German National Identity After the Holocaust (1999), Interpretations of the Two Germanies, 1945 1990 (Second Edition, 2000), Historical Theory (2002), A Concise History of Germany (Second Edition, 2004), The People s State: East German Society from Hitler to Honecker (2005), Dissonant Lives: Generations and Violence through the German Dictatorships (2011), and the Fraenkel Prize winning A Small Town near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust (2012).

List of Plates vii List of Maps ix Preface to the Fourth Edition x Preface to the Third Edition xi Preface to the Second Edition xii Acknowledgements xiv 1 The Course of German History 1 Part I A Divided Society: The Weimar Republic and the Third Reich 13 2 The Weimar Republic: Origins and Orientations 15 3 The Collapse of Democracy and the Rise of Hitler 40 4 A National Community ? State, Economy and Society, 1933 1939 57 5 War, Extermination and Defeat 80 Part II The Divided Nation: The Two Germanies, 1945 1990 111 6 Occupation and Division, 1945 1949 113 7 Crystallization and Consolidation, 1949 1961 142 8 Transformation and the Established Phase , 1961 1988 164 9 Diverging Societies 183 10 Politics and the State 200 11 Dissent and Opposition 217 12 Diverging Cultures and National Identities? 237 13 The East German Revolution and the End of the Postwar Era 259 Part III The Divided Century 281 14 The Berlin Republic 283 15 Tension and Transformation in Twentieth-century Germany 301 Notes 319 Select Bibliography of English-language Works 337 Index 345