Armin Grünbacher is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Birmingham

• List of platesPrefaceAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsChronologyPart I Interregnum, 1945–491. The Allies in control, 1945–462. Growing division, 1946–49Part II ‘The Allies’ Federal Chancellor’, 1949–553. Founding myth and ‘Economic Miracle’4. Problems and challenges 5. Westintegration6. RearmamentPart III, ‘We are again somebody …’, Life and Politics in the 1950s 7. Visit to Moscow and the Hallstein Doctrine8. European Integration: From Messina to the Elysee Treaty9. Art and culture in the Miracle Years10. Leisure and consumers 11. Gender and youth12. The ‘Corporate’ StatePart IV Kanzlerdämmerung and the Nazi past13. Adenauer, the GDR and the Berlin Wall14. ‘Mein Gott, was soll aus Deutschland werden…’ The Presidency, the Spiegel Affair and the Successor Question15. The Nazi pastThe Adenauer era: A summarySelected readingIndex

Armin Grünbacher is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Birmingham

• List of platesPrefaceAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsChronologyPart I Interregnum, 1945–491. The Allies in control, 1945–462. Growing division, 1946–49Part II ‘The Allies’ Federal Chancellor’, 1949–553. Founding myth and ‘Economic Miracle’4. Problems and challenges 5. Westintegration6. RearmamentPart III, ‘We are again somebody …’, Life and Politics in the 1950s 7. Visit to Moscow and the Hallstein Doctrine8. European Integration: From Messina to the Elysee Treaty9. Art and culture in the Miracle Years10. Leisure and consumers 11. Gender and youth12. The ‘Corporate’ StatePart IV Kanzlerdämmerung and the Nazi past13. Adenauer, the GDR and the Berlin Wall14. ‘Mein Gott, was soll aus Deutschland werden…’ The Presidency, the Spiegel Affair and the Successor Question15. The Nazi pastThe Adenauer era: A summarySelected readingIndex

Armin Grünbacher is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Birmingham

• List of platesPrefaceAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsChronologyPart I Interregnum, 1945–491. The Allies in control, 1945–462. Growing division, 1946–49Part II ‘The Allies’ Federal Chancellor’, 1949–553. Founding myth and ‘Economic Miracle’4. Problems and challenges 5. Westintegration6. RearmamentPart III, ‘We are again somebody …’, Life and Politics in the 1950s 7. Visit to Moscow and the Hallstein Doctrine8. European Integration: From Messina to the Elysee Treaty9. Art and culture in the Miracle Years10. Leisure and consumers 11. Gender and youth12. The ‘Corporate’ StatePart IV Kanzlerdämmerung and the Nazi past13. Adenauer, the GDR and the Berlin Wall14. ‘Mein Gott, was soll aus Deutschland werden…’ The Presidency, the Spiegel Affair and the Successor Question15. The Nazi pastThe Adenauer era: A summarySelected readingIndex