pt. 1. German national character. Memoirs / Otto von Bismarck
Tragedy and hope / Carroll Quigley
The German catastrophe / Friedrich Meinecke
Escape from freedom / Erich Fromm
The tragic character of German history / Hans Kohn.
pt. 2. Problem of the Republic. Articles 231 and 232 of the Versailles Treaty
An impeachment of the Versailles Verdict / Maximilian Montgelas
Article 48 of the Weimar constitution
Sovereignty in the Republic / Rupert Emerson
The stab-in-the-back myth / Paul von Hindenburg
Military- civilian coalition / Harlan R. Crippen
The high command's attitude / Gordon A. Craig
Military irresponsibility / John W. Wheeler- Bennett
Perversion of justice / Franz Neumann
The courts and the communists
Failure of the parties / Hannah Vogt
Republican government without republicans / Arnold J. Heidenheimer
Runaway inflation / Louis L. Snyder
An episode of the inflation / Stefan Zweig
The Great Depression / S. William Halperin
Little man, what now? / Hans Fallada.
pt. 3. Hitler provides answers.
The role of the party / Adolf Hitler
The party and the Reichstag / Joseph Goebbels
The party and agriculture / John B. Holt
The appeal to fear / Kurt G. W. Ludecke
The appeal to power / Ernst Hanfstaengl
The party and the military / Werner von Blomberg
The party and big business / Henry Ashby Turner Jr.
The leadership principle / Friedrich Meineke
Personal magnetism / Joseph Goebbels
The peasant Caesar / Solomon Bloom
Master of propaganda / Adolf Hitler.
pt. 4. Consolidation of power.
Hitler becomes chancellor / Erich Eyck
The organization of labor
The organization of students
The organization of the youth leagues
Law against the new establishment of parties
Law for the reconstruction of the Reich
Chancellor and president.
