Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Preface xi
5. 1. Before 1914: the Old Colony 1
6. 2.World War I: Privation and Profiteering 32
7. 3. The Political Awakening of the Community, 1918-1919 52
8. 4. The Lure of Argentina in the 1920s: Big Business and the German-Speaking Immigrants 68
9. 5. Notes on the Immigrant Experience im Affenland 91
10. 6. Political Conflict, 1919-1929 109
11. 7. The Social Crisis of the Middle Class, 1918-1933 123
12. 8. Assimilation and the School Question, 1918-1933 150
13. 9. Cultural Despair, Perceptions of Nazism, and the Gleichschaltung of 1933 169
14. Notes 185
15. Bibliography 207
16. Index 219