Introduction: Total defeat
Part One: Dividing Germany, 1945-70. Germany's "Zero hour"
New states, East and West
Stability, consolidation, and dissent in West and East
Politics and generational change in 1960s West Germany
Behind the Wall : East Germany on a new path
Part Two: New beginnings, 1969-92. New social republics, East and West
Crisis and Change : the Federal Republic in the 1970s
The socialist nation and the rise of dissidence : Honecker's East Germany
The paradox of West Germany conservatism
Collapse, revolution, unification, 1989-90
Part Three: The Berlin Republic, 1990-2017. Tensions of unification
The Berlin Republic, the Red-Green Coalition, and the identity of the new Germany
Economics, politics, and diplomacy of a civilian state, 2007-17.