1. Into the Abyss:

Germany under Allied Occupation, 1945–46

2. Germany Is Set on a New Course:

The Founding of Two States, 1947–1949

3. The Federal Republic Orientates to the West:

Western Integration and the “Economic Miracle” in the Adenauer Era, 1949–1963

4. Hegemony Against the Will of the People:

The German Democratic Republic 1949–1961

5. From Stagnation to Take-Off, and from Ludwig Erhard to the Grand Coalition, 1963–1969

6. After the Building of the Wall: Stabilisation of the SED State by Means of Force under Walter Ulbricht, 1961–1971

7. The Republic in Transition:

The New Policy Towards the East and Commitment to Reform in the Brandt Era, 1969–1974

8. The Crisis Years:

Political Strains and Their Solutions During the Period of the Schmidt/Genscher Government, 1974–1982

9. The Dictatorship’s Deceptive Facade of Normality:

GDR under Honecker from the 1970’s Onwards

10. A Change of Government in Bonn:

The Christian Democrat–Liberal Coalition under Helmut Kohl from 1982

11. The Collapse of the SED Dictatorship and the Fall of the Wall in 1989

12. The Unanticipated Reunification:

The New Course for Germany and International Reaction to It, 1989–90

13. In Retrospect 

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