| List of Illustrations | |
| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
| Abbreviations | |
| Introduction | 3 |
| Ch. 1 | The Genesis of Reeducation | 17 |
| Ch. 2 | The POW Camp and the Total Institution | 30 |
| Ch. 3 | Professors into Propagandists | 43 |
| Ch. 4 | The Idea Factory and Its Intellectual Laborers | 59 |
| Ch. 5 | Der Ruf: Inner Emigration, Collective Guilt, and the POW | 75 |
| Ch. 6 | Literature: The Battle of the Books | 91 |
| Ch. 7 | Film: Mass Culture and Reeducation | 107 |
| Ch. 8 | Politics and Scholarship: The Reeducation College | 127 |
| Ch. 9 | The Democracy Seminars: Preparation for "One World" | 145 |
| Ch. 10 | Variations on the Theme of Reeducation | 162 |
| Ch. 11 | Reeducation and the Decline of the American Dons | 180 |
| Notes | 189 |
| Note on the Sources | 209 |
| Index | 213 |