Dreams and Delusions: The Drama of German History

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This highly praised collection of essays by eminent historian Fritz Stern ponders the monumental promise and catastrophe of twentieth-century German history. Contents Preface Introduction I: The Dream of Peace 1. Einstein’s Germany 2. Fritz Haber: The Scientist in Power and in Exile 3. Ernst Reuter: The Making of a Democratic Socialist 4. The Burden of Success: Reflections on German Jewry II: The Lure of Power 5. Germany 1933: Fifty Years Later 6. National Socialism as Temptation III: Peace and the Release From Greatness 7. Germany in a Semi-Gaullist Europe 8. Germany and the United States: Visions of Declining Virtue IV: Historian and the German Past 9. Americans and the German Past: A Century of American Scholarship 10. Capitalism and the Cultural Historian 11. The Speech to the Bundestag, June 17, 1987 Notes Acknowledgments Index