Table of Contents

1: Introduction
2: Prologue: The Bismarck Myth in Wilhelmine Germany 1890-1918
3: After the Collapse
4: Fragmented Society, Divided Memory: Perceptions of Bismarck in Early Weimar Germany
5: Fighting the 'Enemies of the Reich': Bismarck and the State Crisis of 1922-23
6: Bismarck as an Election Campaigner
7: In the Shadow of Stabilization
8: Towards the Abyss: Bismarck and the Dissolution of the Weimar Republic
9: Epilogue: Bismarck Between the 'Seizure of Power' and Reunification 1933-1990
10: Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Robert Gerwarth was educated at the Humboldt University, Berlin and University College, Oxford. He is currently a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Reviews

The history of Weimar Germany's failure has never been told more accurately, convincingly, and vividly than in Robert Gerwarth's Bismarck Myth. Johannes Willms, Deutschland Radio Gerwarth's book makes an outstanding contribution to our understanding of modern Germany's political culture. Heinrich August Winkler Robert Gerwarth's study on Otto von Bismarck and the role of the Bismarck myth in the rise of Hitler sets new standards for the historiography of Weimar Germany (and) improves our understanding of the fatal turn which German history took in 1933. Hans-Ulrich Wehler, Weltwoche