An innovative study of the ways in which Germans of different ages and life stages lived through the violent eruptions of the two world wars, and through the rise of Nazism, looking at the ways in which this shaped, not merely German society, state, and economy, but also the character of the German people.

• 1: Introduction: Violence and Generations


• 2: Violence Abroad: Aspects of Imperialism


• 3: Uncomfortable Compatriots: Societal Violence and the Crises of Weimar


• 4: Divided Generations: State Violence and the Formation of 'Two Worlds' in Nazi Germany


• 5: The Escalation of Violence: War and Genocide


• Epilogue to volume I


• Bibliography


• Index

Mary Fulbrook is Professor of German History at University College London. She is the author of numerous books and articles on German history, including A Small Town Near Auschwitz and Anatomy of a Dictatorship, both also published by Oxford University Press.