From The Ashes Of Disgrace: A Journal From Germany, 1945-1955

Contents
	Introduction
One. Letters
	First Visit 1945
	First Days in Germany:
	Frankfurt, Bad Homburg
	Second Visit 1946
	Later Visits 1950-1955
Two. Recollections 1947-1948, Report 1950
	Preface
	Three Recollections
	Report of Visit in 1950
Three. Conversations and Observations, 1951-1952
	Preface
	Alfred Toppe: Military Pride and Pensions
	Dr. Reibert: A Candid Soldier
	Amateur Machiavellianism and Erich Mende
	Impressions of Public Life
	A Sunday Dinner
	A Family of Former Nazis
	Evening at a Publisher's House, and the Next Morning
	Weekend at the Mosel
	Otto Klepper:
	The Importance of the Third World
	Gerhard Graf von Schwerin:
	Military Critic of Rearmament
	Opinions about Emst Reuter
	Adolf Heusinger: the First Soldier
	A German Postwar Boy
	Kurt von Tippelskirch: a Historian
	Anxiety about the Russians
	On Anxiety about Attacks from the Air
	Anxiety in Germany, A Panel Discussion
	Frido von Sengei und Etteilin:
	Soldier, Scholar, and Educator
	Max Horkheimer and Frederick Pollock
Four. Observations and Conversations, 1954-1955
	Preface to Part Four
	Socializing with Businessmen
	Afterthought on Malicious Joy
	Tax Evasions
	Hans-Rudolf Müller-Schwefe: Life in the Soviet Zone
	German Television
	Building Activities and Rentals
	Sense of Duty
	Theodor Steltzer: A Study of German Youth
	Wilhelm Meinberg: A Neo-Nazi
	Leo Freiherr Geyr von Schweppenburg: Military Self-Criticism, the Middle East, and World War III
	Günther Blumentritt: France and EDC; History of the German Officers' Corps
	Georg von Sodenstem: "New Look” and China
	Democracy in Germany
	Karl Silex: Neutralist
	A Journalist: Anti-Americanism; Writing between the Lines
	Rudolf Pechel: Writing under Threats of Persecution; German Overtures to the East; The Danger of Renazification
	Louis Muller: German-French Relations
	Franz Haider: Political and Military Views
	Observations on Informal Communications and the Blank Office
	Adelbert Weinstein and Karl Heinrich Heifer
	Fraternization 1955: The Committee for European Security of the German Bundestag
	Franz Josef Strauss
	Wolf Graf Baudissin: The Spirit of the German Army
	Fritz Beiendsen: Upper-Class Juste Milieu
	West Germany in 1955: Excerpts from an Informal Talk
	Index