Adenauer: The Father of the New Germany

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS viii

PREFACE x

PART ONE: The Kaiser’s Germany

1 COLOGNE: 1876 3

2 ‘GAUDEAMUS IGITUR JUVENES DUM SUMUS’ 15

3 THE END OF YOUTH 31

4 THE LADDER OF AMBITION 45

5 A TIME OF TRAGEDY 60

6 THE MANAGEMENT OF DEFEAT 75

PART TWO: Weimar Germany

1 THE AFTERMATH OF WAR 95

2 LIFE HAS TO GO ON 111

3 THE REPARATIONS CR I S I S 126

4 1923 140

5 COLOGNE I S FREE! 157

6 THE PRIVATE AND PUBLIC MAYOR 172

7 DUBIOUS MANOEUVRES 186

8 CONFRONTATION 203

PART THREE: Hitler’s Germany

1 DESCENT INTO DARKNESS 215

2 THEY START TO CLOSE IN 229

3 HE NO LONGER MATTERS 241

4 KEEPING OUT OF TROUBLE 253

5 A QUIET WAR 266

6 ‘THE WAR I S OVER! ’ 276

PART FOUR: Adenauer’s Germany

1 SACKED BY THE BRITISH 293

2 ANOTHER POLITICAL BIRTH – ANOTHER PERSONAL DEATH 307

3 THE BEGINNINGS OF THE NEW GERMANY 323

4 THE FEDERAL CHANCELLOR 344

5 BUILDING EUROPE – AND FACING THE BEAR 362

6 AT HOME AND AT WORK 380

7 POLITICS IS AN ART – NOT A SCIENCE 392

8 WHERE DOES GERMANY STAND? 410

9 CAN ANYONE BE TRUSTED? 424

10 ENTER THE GENERAL 446

11 KHRUSHCHEV’ S CHALLENGE 465

12 THREATS AND COUNTER-THREATS 486

13 FROM TRIUMPH TO DISMISSAL 503

14 FINALE 524

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 539

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 542

NOTES 546

INDEX 570