Paul Ehrlich: the founder of chemotherapy -- Max Planck and the trials of his times -- Together and apart: Fritz Haber and Albert Einstein -- Walther Rathenau and the vision of modernity -- Historians and the Great War: private experience and public explication -- Chaim Weizmann and liberal nationalism -- Freedom and its discontents: the travails of the new Germany -- Past distorted: the Goldhagen controversy -- Lost homelands: German-Polish reconciliation.