Germany Since 1945

Peter C. Caldwell is Samuel G. McCann Professor of History at Rice University, USA. Professor Caldwell is a Humboldt Fellow, and has received grants from the DAAD and the Humboldt Foundation. He is the author of several books, including Dictatorship, State Planning, and Social Theory in the German Democratic Republic (2003) and Democracy, Capitalism, and the Welfare State: Debating Social Order in Postwar West Germany, 1949-1989 (2019). He is also a series editor for Bloomsbury's short-format German History in Focus series.Karrin Hanshew is Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University, USA. Professor Hanshew has received grants from the DAAD, the United States Institute of Peace, and the Social Science Research Council. She is the author of Terror and Democracy in West Germany (2012) and is currently working on a monograph entitled From Axis to Europe: German and Italian Entanglements in the Social (Re)construction of Europe After World War II.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments for the Second EditionList of Terms and AbbreviationsHow to Use This Book in TeachingIntroduction: Total defeatPart One: Dividing Germany, 1945–701. Germany’s “Zero Hour”2. New States, East and West3. Stability, Consolidation, and Dissent in West and East4. Politics and Generational Change in 1960s West Germany5. Behind the Wall: East Germany on a New PathPart Two: New Beginnings, 1969–926. New Social Republics, East and West7. Crisis and Change: The Federal Republic in the 1970s8. Honecker’s East Germany: The Model Socialist Nation9. The Paradox of West German Conservatism10. Collapse, Revolution, Unification: 1989–90Part Three: The Berlin Republic, 1990–202311. Tensions of Unification12. Making the Berlin Republic: Domestic Policy and Multicultural Society13. The Berlin Republic and International Relations: Between Hegemon and Civilian State14. The Challenges and Legacies of the Merkel ChancellorshipConclusionNotesIndex