Know your enemy: the American debate on Nazism, 1933-1945

Introduction : defining the German problem

Part one: Prelude to war. Memories of World War I : Franklin D. Roosevelt and Germany ; News from the new Germany : conflicting interpretations, contested meanings, 1933-1940 ; The prospect of war, 1933-1941

Part two: Mobilizing the American home front, 1942-1943. "The principal battleground of this war is American public opinion" ; The Office of War information : "explaining Nazism to the American people is no easy assignment" ; Why we fight : the nature of the enemy seen differently

Part three: The public debate on Germany, 1942-1945. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde : Germans and Nazis ; The German disease and Nazism as gangsterism ; German peculiarities : Vansittartism in the American wartime debate

Part four: The governmental debate on postwar plans, 1943-1945. What do you do with people like that? ; How to prevent World War III? ; The enemy in defeat : German-American encounters at "zero hour."