- Introduction: Before Success
- 1. March 29, 1945: Between the No Longer and the Not Yet: Peace Breaks Out Gradually in Central Europe
- 2. May 7, 1945: Malevolent Rectangles of Spectral Horror: A Photographer and His Subject
- 3. June 23, 1945: After Dachau: Of Private Vengeance, Collective Guilt, Life in Ruins, Population Transfers, and Displaced Persons
- 4. October 4, 1945: Dilemmas of Denazification: Karl Loewenstein, Carl Schmitt, Military Occupation, and Militant Democracy
- 5. January 8, 1946: Are You Occupied Territory? Black G.I.s in Fiction of the Occupation
- 6. April 24, 1946: The Race Problem in the House on Lilac Road: Occupation Children and the Film Toxi
- 7. August 20, 1948 / May 6, 1977: Heil, Johnny: Billy Wilder’s A Foreign Affair; or, The Denazification of Erika von Schlütow
- Coda: Comic Relief?
- Afterword
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index


The Temptation of Despair
Tales of the 1940s
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Publication Date: 04/28/2014