Mary Fulbrook, FBA is Professor of German History at University College London (UCL), UK. A graduate of Cambridge and Harvard Universities, she is the author or editor of numerous books, including Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice, for which she won the 2019 Wolfson History Prize, and A Small Town Near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust, winner of the 2012 Fraenkel Prize. Professor Fulbrook has served as Executive Dean of the UCL Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences, Academic Director of the UCL European Institute, founding Joint Editor of the journal German History, and Chair of the German History Society.

List of Plates vii
List of Maps ix
Preface to the Fifth Edition x
Preface to the Fourth Edition xi
Preface to the Third Edition xii
Preface to the Second Edition xiii
Acknowledgments xv
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 42
4 A 'National Community'? State, Economy and Society, 1933-1939 60
5 War, Extermination and Defeat 85
Part II The Divided Nation: The Two Germanies, 1945-1990 119
6 Occupation and Division, 1945-49 121
7 Crystallization and Consolidation, 1949-61 152
8 Transformation and the 'Established Phase', 1961-88 175
9 Diverging Societies 195
10 Politics and the State 214
11 Dissent and Opposition 231
12 Diverging Cultures and National Identities? 252
13 The East German Revolution and the End of the Postwar Era 274
Part III The Divided Century 297
14 The Berlin Republic 299
15 Tension and Transformation in Twentieth-Century Germany 325
Notes 344
Select Bibliography of English-Language Works 362
Index 371