Originally published in 1988 The Burden of German History 1919-45 provides a stimulating review of a wide range of topics in modern German cultural, political, economic and military history.

List of Contributors Introduction 1. Weimar Culture 2. The Culture of Weimar: Models of Decline 3. Blut and Boden Fiction and the Tradition of Popular Reading Culture in Germany 4. The Predicament of the Weimar Republic 5. The Weimar Republic between the Second and the Third Reich: Continuity and Discontinuity in the German Question, 1919-33 6. Weimar and Versailles: German Foreign Policy, 1919-33 7. The Breakthrough of the National Socialists as a Mass Movement in the Late Weimar Republic 8. The Failure of the Weimar Republic and the Rise of Hitler 9. Policy and Performance in the Germany Economy, 1925-35: A Comment on the Borchardt Thesis 10. Images of Fascism: Visualization and Aestheticization in the Third Reich 11. Germany's Way into the Second World War 12. The War, German Society and Internal Resistance