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Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Foreword xv
6. Acknowledgments xix
7. Introduction 3
8. PART ONE: THE NEW ARMY AND THE PAST
9. 1. The Maintenance of Tradition and the Burden of the Past 11
10. 2. The "Magna Carta" of the Bundeswehr: Tradition and Reform 47
11. 3. The European Army and the Dienststelle Blank·. Problems and Personalities 64
12. 4· Count Baudissin and an Army without Pathos 88
13. 5. The Meeting at Siegburg and the Discipline Genemle-. "What Should Be Handed Down?" 105
14. 6. The Bundestag Security Committee Takes Up the Issue 121
15. 7. The Personnel Screening Boards: The Twentieth of July 1944 136
16. 8. Count Baudissin's Answer: The First Courses at Sonthofen, Cologne, and Koblenz 148
17. PART TWO: THE DECREE ON TRADITION
18. 9. "Inner Strangulation": The Troops and the Reforms 165
19. ίο. Death's Head and St. Hubertus Cross: Unit Lineage and Honors 175
20. 11. Early Drafts of the Decree: The Role of Theodor Heuss and the Council on Innere Fuhrung 185
21. 12. The Search for Franz-Josef Strauss's Image of History 194
22. 13. Colonel Wagemann Completes the Decree 202
23. 14. "What Is a Valid Heritage?" First Reactions to the Decree 213
24. PART THREE: A NEW GENERATION SEEKS ITS VALID HERITAGE
25. 15. Transition and Open Conflict, 1966-1972 227
26. 16. The Fate of the Traditions Decree and the Rise and Fall of Its Successors, 1976-1986 256
27. 17 Conclusion: AValid Heritage 290
28. Bibliography 299
29. Index 311