Why we fight! -- Soviet partisans and Soviet suspicions, Summer 1944 -- "We do not call upon the Germans to revolt", Fall 1944 -- The capture-liberation of Metz -- The Battle of the Bulge, Winter 1944-1945 -- Mainz: investigating a pre-VE Day military government, Spring 1945 -- Interrogating victims of Nazism and Nazis -- Wuerzburg: another military government experience -- "What we Russians like to consider as a typical American!" -- Policy clash in military government -- "Crack Patton's military government wide open!", Summer 1945 -- "If only you Americans weren't here...!" -- Patton's last stand -- Elections, the American cure-all, Fall 1945 -- Rehearsal for McCarthyism -- Triumph of the Cold Warriors -- A military government in crisis, Winter 1945-1946 -- Elections: the American panacea II -- Democracy, American zone style! -- Summing up and the collective guilt issue, Spring 1946 -- Demoralized GIs -- Epilogue: 1946-1947