Vertigo: the rise and fall of Weimar Germany

Preface: The new life

When the war came home

When money dies

Extreme living

"Destinies behind typewriters" : the supporting class of the new age

Precarious balance : the death of Ebert, the arrival of Hindenberg

Traffic as the art of citizenship

The Charleston years

Self-optimisation : perfecting leisure and the body

Between woman and man : gender doubts

The work runs out

The mood plummets, taste adapts : cultural conflicts in a time of depression

"Evening over Potsdam" : the end of a community of communication

Lonely elites : cabinet politics vs populism

The end : Chancellor Hitler.