INTRODUCTION

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. PREFACE TO THE NEW PAPERBACK EDITION ix
4. A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR xv
5. INTRODUCTION 3
6. PART ONE. The Promise of German Life
7. 1. Paul Ehrlich: The Founder of Chemotherapy 13
8. 2. Max Planck and the Trials of His Times 35
9. 3. Together and Apart: Fritz Haber and Albert Einstein 59
10. 4. Walther Rathenau and the Vision of Modernity 165
11. PART TWO. The Great War and Consequent Terrors
12. 5. Historians and the Great War: Private Experience and Public Explication 199
13. 6. Chaim Weizmann and Liberal Nationalism 223
14. 7. Freedom and Its Discontents: The Travails of the New Germany 253
15. 8. The Past Distorted: The Goldhagen Controversy 272
16. 9. Lost Homelands: German-Polish Reconciliation 289
17. NOTES 303
18. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 325
19. INDEX 329