Contents: The defeat of Germany in 1918 and the European balance of power -- National Socialist organization and foreign policy aims in 1927 -- The world through Hitler's eyes -- The Nazi revolution : a war against human rights -- Propaganda for peace and preparation for war -- Hitler and England, 1933-1945 : pretense and reality -- German foreign policy and Austria -- Germany, Munich, and appeasement -- A proposed compromise over Danzig in 1939? -- The German generals and the outbreak of war, 1938-1939 -- Hitler's decision for war -- German diplomacy toward the Soviet Union -- The Nazi-Soviet pacts of 1939 : a half century later -- From confrontation to cooperation : Germany and the United States, 1917-1949 -- Pearl Harbor : the German perspective -- Global conflict : the interaction between the European and Pacific theaters of war in World War II -- The "final solution" and the war in 1943 -- July 20, 1944 : the German resistance to Hitler -- D-Day after fifty years : assessments of costs and benefits -- German plans for victory, 1944-1945 -- Reflections on running a war : Hitler, Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Tojo -- Some thoughts on World War II -- A new Germany in a new world -- Appendix. The end of Ranke's history? : reflections on the fate of history in the twentieth century

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