Table of Contents

Introduction
1: The German Catastrophe 1933-45
2: Democracy and Dictatorship 1945-1961
3: Two States, One Nation 1961-1973
4: Rapprochment and Estrangement 1973-1989
5: Unity in Freedom 1989-90
Farewell to Separate Paths: looking back and looking ahead

About the Author

Heinrich August Winkler was born in 1938 in Königsberg. He studied history, philosophy, and public law in Tübingen, Heidelberg and Münster. He was associate professor at the Freie Universität in Berlin in 1970-72 and then professor of modern history in Freiburg until 1991. He has been at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin since 1992, and has been a visiting scholar in Princeton, at the Wilson Center in Washington, at the Institute for
Advanced Studies in Berlin, and at the Historisches Kolleg in Munich.

Reviews

magisterial...Winkler's magnum opus. TLS an impressive accomplishment... very much worth reading Jonathan Sperber