Executive Editor: Wolf Gruner; Edited by: Götz Aly, Wolf Gruner, Susanne Heim, Ulrich Herbert,Hans-Dieter Kreikamp, Horst Möller,Dieter Pohl, and Hartmut Weber; English edition also edited by: Michael Hollmann, Sybille Steinbacher,Simone Walther-von Jena, and Andreas Wirsching;