German History since 1800

Mary Fulbrook is Professor of German History at University College London, UK. She is the author of Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice (2018, winner of the Wolfson History Prize) and A Small Town Near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust (2012, winner of the Fraenkel Prize), amongst others.

• Section I 1800-1870; the German lands before 1815; germany 1815-1848 - restoration or pre-march?; economic, demographic and social changes; cultural and intellectual trends; the revolutions of 1848 and the persistence of the old regime in Germany (1848-1850); revolution to unification. Section II 1871-1918; Bismarckian Germany and the structure of the German empire; demographic growth, industrialization and social changes; imperial Germany - cultural and intellectual trends; Wihelmine germany. Section III 1918-1945; Germany from war to dictatorship; the German inter-war economy; culture and society in Weimar Germany; the rise of the Nazis - Sonderweg or spanner in the works?; Hitler and the Nazi dictatorship; the holocaust. Section IV Germany since 1945; division and stability - the Federal Republic of Germany 1949-1989; the failed experiment - East Germany communism; Ossis and Wessis - the creation of two German societies; culture, history, and national identity in the two Germanies; the end of the GDR. Section V Continuities and discontinuities in German history; the German tradition of historiography 1800-1995; the difficult rise of a civil society; the conditions for war and peace in modern German history; the national idea in modern German history; chronology.