Introduction: answering the German question -- "Tomorrow the world" : images of Germany before the Cold War -- "Germany belongs in the western world" : Germany and consensus politics in America, 1945-1959 -- "Your post on the frontier" : Germany in an age of consensus, 1945-1959 -- "The anti-German wave" : maintaining and challenging consensus in an age of chaos, 1959-1969 -- "We refuse to be "good Germans'" : Germany in a divided decade, 1959-1969 -- "The hero is us" : representations of Germany since the 1960s -- Conclusion: the significance of the German question in the twenty-first century.
