Literature and society in Germany.--What Germans really read.--Death, time, and history.--The poet and the exercise of political power.--Caesarism, circuses, and monuments.--The French right and the working classes.--The heritage of socialist humanism.--Toward a general theory of fascism.--The mystical origins of national socialism.--Nazi polemical theater.--Fascism and the avant garde.--The secularization of Jewish theology.--The Jews and the German war experience, 1914-1918.--German socialists and the Jewish question in the Weimar Republic.