After Hitler

After Hitler seeks to explain the breathtaking transformation of the Germans from the defeated National Socialist accomplices and Holocaust perpetrators of 1945 to the civilized, democratic, and prosperous people of today, living in a reunited country that plays a leading role in the integration of Europe.

Konrad H. Jarausch is the Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and director of the Center for Research in Contemporary History in Potsdam, Germany. He has authored, co-authored, and edited over two dozen books on modern German and European history, including Shattered Past: Reconstructing German Histories; After Unity: Reconfiguring German Identities, 1990-1995 (OUP, 1987); and The Rush to German Unity (OUP, 1994).

Preface
Introduction: Rupture of Civilization
Part I: Forced Reorientation
1: Renouncing War
2: Questioning the Nation
3: Rejecting the Plan
Preconditions of Freedom
Part II: Contradictory Modernization
4: Embracing the West
5: Arriving at Democracy
6: Protesting Authority
Paradoxes of Modernity
Part III: Challenges of Civil Society
7: Abandoning Socialism
8: Searching for Normalcy
9: Fearing Foreignness
Implications of Upheaval
Conclusion: Contours of the Berlin Republic
Index