Conflict, Catastrophe and Continuity

Frank Biess is Associate Professor for Modern German and European History at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Homecomings. Returning POWs and the Legacies of Defeat in Postwar Germany, and is co-editing a volume on the comparative history of the European “postwar” after 1945.

“…a rich volume that manages to be remarkably coherent and diverse at the same time…The volume covers a large range of topics in modern German history in an engaging fashion and provides much stimulation for thought and discussion.”  ·  H-German

• PrefaceIntroductionFrank Biess and Mark RosemanPART I: GERMAN ELITES AND AN UNRULY SOCIETYChapter 1. Kulturkampf and Geschlechterkampf: Anti-Catholicism, Catholic Women, and Public SpaceMichael B. GrossChapter 2. The 1923 Ruhr Crisis: The Limits of Active ResistanceConan FischerChapter 3. Political Violence, Gesinnung, and the Courts in Late Weimar BerlinPamela E. SwettPART II: GERMAN SOCIETY AND A VIOLENT REGIMEChapter 4. Beyond Conviction? Perpetrators, Ideas and Action in the Holocaust in Historiographical PerspectiveMark RosemanChapter 5. The Dissolution of the Third ReichHans MommsenChapter 6. The Search for Missing Soldiers: MIAs, POWs, and Ordinary Germans, 1943–45Frank BiessPART III: CHANGE AND CONTINUITY IN GERMANY'S FOREIGN RELATIONSChapter 7. The Kaiser and His English Relations RevisitedJohn C. G. RöhlChapter 8. Appeasement and Counter-Appeasement: Nazi–Soviet Collaboration 1939–1941Hartmut Pogge von StrandmannChapter 9. Imperialism as a Paradigm for Modern German HistoryUta PoigerChapter 10. Americanization as a Paradigm of German HistoryMary NolanPART IV: SMOOTH SURFACES, MURKY DEPTHS: THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLICChapter 11. The Radicalization that Never Was? Refugees in the German Federal RepublicIan ConnorChapter 12. Germany’s Special Path? Economic Sciences and Politics in the Federal Republic, 1945–1970Alexander NützenadelChapter 13. Catholic Elites, Gender, and Unintended Consequences in the 1950s: Toward a Reinterpretation of the Role of Conservatives in the Federal RepublicMark Edward RuffChapter 14. Memory, Morality, and the Sexual Liberalization of West GermanyDagmar HerzogChapter 15. The Modern Guild: Rotary Clubs and Bourgeois Renewal in the Aftermath of National SocialismS. Jonathan WiesenChapter 16. Fighting to Win the Peace: 08/15 and West German Memories of the Second World WarRobert G. MoellerChapter 17. Rehabilitating Fatherland: Race and German RemasculinizationHeide FehrenbachChapter 18. Epilogue: Zeitgenossenschaft: Some Reflections on Doing Contemporary German HistoryHanna SchisslerSelected ReadingsContributorsIndex