Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Part I: The 1952 Reparations Agreement -- 1. The Costs of Whitewashing -- 2. Building Israel -- 3. The Agreement and the Arab States -- Part II: The Military Alliance: A German Sonderweg in the Middle East? (1956-67) -- 4. After Suez: The Alliance Begins -- 5. Shifting Images: 'New Germans' and 'Arab Nazis' -- 6. Changing the Guards: American Strategy and the Decision for Diplomatic Relations -- 7. Tanks and Fantasies: Germany and the 1967 Arab-Israel War
Part III: 'Normalisation' and the Palestinian Question in Germany's Israel Policy -- 8. 'Normalisation Begins Now': The German Transition After 1965 -- 9. 'Even-handed'? Germany, Israel and the Middle East (1969-82) -- 10. Realignment: The Gradual Soothing of German-Israeli Ties After 1982 -- Part IV: New Commitments and Failing Prospects: Germany, Israel and Palestine from Unification Until Today -- 11. Recommitting: Germany's Israel Policy After Unification and the Cold War -- 12. Memory Politics After Unification: How Israel Became Part of the German Staatsräson
13. Germany in the Territories: Perpetuating the Occupation? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
