SES # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
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Week 1 | ||
1 | Introduction to Class and Requirements: What is "Fascism"?, What is "Nazism"? | |
Week 2 | ||
2 |
Imperial Germany and the First World War Discussion Fabri, Friedrich. Short excerpt from Does Germany Need Colonies? |
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3 | Total War and Total (?) Defeat | |
Week 3 | ||
4 |
Revolution and the Weimar Constitution Discussion Remarque, Jünger. "Letters from the Front and Home Front" |
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5 |
The Treaty of Versailles Economic Shock Paramilitary Politics |
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Week 4 | ||
6 | Recovery, and Weimar Culture I: Art and the Avant-Garde (Visual Presentation) | |
7 |
Weimar Culture II: The New Woman Discussion Berghaus, Gunter. "Girlkultur: Feminism, Americanism, and Popular Entertainment in Weimar Germany." Journal of Design History (1988). |
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Week 5 | ||
8 | Film: "The Blue Angel" (Die Blaue Engel) (1930, 107 minutes) | |
9 | Countercurrents: Anti-Semitism, Völkisch Nationalism (and the Origins of the Nazi Party) | First paper due 3 days after Session 9 (5-6 pages) |
Week 6 | ||
10 |
Discussion Fallada, Hans. Little Man, What Now? 1933. |
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Week 7 | ||
11 | The Great Depression and the Polarization of Politics | |
12 |
Discussion Allen, William S. The Nazi Seizure of Power. |
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Week 8 | ||
13 | The Nazi Seizure of Power and Gleichschaltung | |
14 |
National Socialist Propaganda and Aesthetics: The New Mass Media Film: Excerpts from Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will and Olympia Discussion The films of Leni Riefenstahl |
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Week 9 | ||
15 |
Discussion Allen, William S. The Nazi Seizure of Power. |
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16 | The Racial State | |
Week 10 | ||
17 | The Rise of the SS State, and Everyday Life under Nazism | Second paper due (5-6 pages) |
18 | Outbreak of the Second World War | |
Week 11 | ||
19 | The Course of the War, and the Eastern Front | |
20 |
Origins of the "Final Solution" and the Machinery of Mass Murder Film: Excerpt from Die Ewige Jüde Discussion Report of Einsatzgruppe C (1941) |
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Week 12 | ||
21 |
Discussion Browning. Ordinary Men. Fest, Joachim. The Face of the Third Reich. (Höss) |
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22 | Meeting with Instructor: Review of "Der Brand" (Strategic Bombing) | |
Week 13 | ||
23 |
The Defeat of Germany and Götterdammerung Discussion Allen, William S. The Nazi Seizure of Power. |
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24 | "Zero Hour" and Denazification | Third paper due (5-6 pages) |
Week 14 | ||
25 | Film: Germany Year Zero (1947, 78 minutes) or Somewhere in Berlin (Irgendwo in Berlin) (1946, DEFA), 79 minutes. |
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26 |
Discussion of Film The Legacy of Nazism in History, Memory and Myth |
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Week 15 | ||
Final Exam |