Chapter 1 The German Revolution 1918-19 -- The Collapse of Imperial Germany -- The German Revolution -- The National Constituent Assembly -- Chapter 2 Weimar's Political Crisis -- The Weimar Constitution -- The Treaty of Versailles -- The Threat from the Extreme Left -- The threat from the Extreme Right -- Extreme Right Uprisings -- Weimar Democracy: A Republic Without Republicans -- Chapter 3 The Great Inflation -- The Economic Background -- The Causes of the German Inflation -- The Consequences of the Great Inflation -- Stresemann's 100 Days -- Chapter 4 Weimar: The Years of Stability 1924-9 -- The Economic Recovery -- Political Stability -- Gustav Stresemann's Achievements -- Weimar Culture -- Weimar 1924-9: An Overview -- Chapter 5 The Early Years of the Nazis 1919-29 -- Adolf Hitler and the Creation of the Nazi Party -- The Beer Hall Putsch 1923 -- Nazi Ideas -- Nazi Fortunes in the 1920s -- Chapter 6 The Decline of the Weimar and the Rise of Nazism 1929-32 -- The Impact of the World Economic Crisis on Germany -- Parliamentary Government's Breakdown -- Bruning: Presidential Government -- From Bruning to Papen -- The Death of the Weimar Republic -- Chapter 7 The Nazi Road to Dictatorship 1932-4 -- The Creation of a Nazi Mass Movement -- Nazi Political Methods -- Political Intrigue, July 1932 to January 1933 -- The Nazi 'Legal Revolution', January-March 1933 -- Co-ordination: Gleichschaltung -- From Chancellor to Fuhrer -- Conclusions: Why was Weimar Germany Replaced by a Nazi Dictatorship? -- Chapter 8 The Nazi Economy -- The Economic Background -- Economic Recovery 1933-6 -- Implementation of the Four-Year Plan 1936 -- The Nazi Economy at War 1939-45 -- Chapter 9 Nazi Society -- The Nazi Volksgemeinschaft -- Social Groups -- Education and Youth -- Religion -- Women and the Family -- Culture -- Outsiders -- Chapter 10 The Racial State -- The Origins of Anti-Semitism -- Gradualism 1933-9 -- War and Genocide 1939-45 -- Chapter 11 The Nazi Regime -- The Role of Hitler -- The Police State -- The Nazi Propoganda Machine -- Resistance -- Chapter 12 From Occupation to Division: The Creation of Two Germanies -- Defeat and Surrender -- Allied Plans for Post-war Germany -- The Allies and the Nazi Legacy -- Democratisation and Decentralisation -- Allied Occupation: The Soviet Zone -- Allied Occupation: The Western Zones -- The Division of Germany -- Conclusions: The Creation of Two Germanies -- Chapter 13 West Germany 1949-63 -- The Bonn Republic -- Party Politics -- The 'Economic Miracle' -- West German Society -- Foreign Relations -- The Adenauer Era -- Chapter 14 East Germany 1949-63 -- The Creation of the SED Dictatorship -- The Political Survival of Ulbricht's DDR -- The DDR Economy -- East German Society -- The Berlin Wall
