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Books for Purchase


Amazon logo Fallada, Hans. Little Man, What Now? Chicago, IL: Academy Chicago Publishers, 2009. ISBN: 9781933633640. (Kleiner Mann, was nun?)

Allen, William S. The Nazi Seizure of Power. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1989. ISBN: 0140228780.

Amazon logo Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz. New York, NY: Summit Books, 1986. ISBN: 9780671605414.

Browning, Christopher. Ordinary Men. Reinbek bei Hamburg, Germany: Rowohlt, 1993. ISBN: 3498005693.

Amazon logo Fabri, Friedrich. "Bedarf Deutschland des Colonien?/Does Germany Need Colonies?" In Studies in German Thought and History. Edited and translated by E. C. M. Breuning, and M. E. Chamberlain. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1998, pp. 2-177, 179, and 181. ISBN: 9780773483712.

Jünger, Ernst. Storms of Steel. Translated by B. Creighton. New York, NY: Howard Fertig, 1975, pp. 300-319. ISBN: 0865273103. (excerpt)

Amazon logo Remarque, Erich Maria. Chapter 4 in All Quiet on the Western Front. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1987. ISBN: 9780449213940. (excerpt)

Amazon logo Fest, Joachim. The Face of the Third Reicht. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780306809156. (excerpt)

Amazon logo Nenno, Nancy. "Femininity, the Primitive, and Modern Urban Space: Josephine Baker in Berlin." In Women in the Metropolis. Gender and Modernity in Weimar Culture. Edited by Katharina Van Ankum. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997, pp. 145-161. ISBN: 9780520204652.

Amazon logo Kershaw, Ian. The "Hitler Myth". New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780192802064.

Amazon logo Koonz, Claudia. Mothers in the Fatherlandt. New York, NY: St. Martin's Griffin, 1988. ISBN: 9780312022563. (excerpt)

Amazon logo Peukert, Detlev. "The Genesis of the Final Solution from the Spirit of Science." In Nazism and German Society. Edited by David Crew. New York, NY: Routledge, 1994. ISBN: 9780415082402.

Amazon logo Spielvogel, Jackson J. Hitler and Nazi Germany: a History. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000. ISBN: 9780139759963.



Readings by Class Session


LEC #TOPICSREADINGS
Week 1
1Introduction 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?
3Total War and Total (?) Defeat
Week 3
4
  • Revolution and the Weimar Constitution
  • Discussion
  • Remarque, Jünger. "Letters from the Front and Home Front"
5
  • The Treaty of Versailles
  • Economic Shock
  • Paramilitary Politics
Week 4
6Recovery, and Weimar Culture I: Art and the Avant-Garde (Visual Presentation)
  • Fest. The Face of the Third Reich. pp. 1-14 (Hitler), 15-26.
  • Kershaw. Hitler Myth. pp. 14-24.
7
  • Weimar Culture II: The New Woman
  • Discussion

    Berghaus, Gunter. "Girlkultur: Feminism, Americanism, and Popular Entertainment in Weimar Germany." Journal of Design History (1988).
    Nenno, Nancy. "Feminity, the Primitive, and Modern Urban Space: Josephine Baker in Berlin."
Week 5
8Film: The Blue Angel (Die Blaue Engel) (1930, 107 min.)
9Countercurrents: Anti-Semitism, Völkisch nationalism (and the Origins of the Nazi Party)Fest. The Face of the Third Reich. pp. 15-26. (Hitler)
Week 6
10Discussion

Fallada, Hans. Little Man, What Now?1933.
Week 7
11The Great Depression and the Polarization of Politics
12Discussion

Allen, William S. The Nazi Seizure of Power.
Week 8
13The Nazi Seizure of Power and GleichschaltungFest. The Face of the Third Reich. pp. 27-38. (Hitler)
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
    Fest, Joachim. The Face of the Third Reich. (Goebbels)
Week 9
15Discussion

Allen. Nazi Seizure of Power.
16The Racial State
  • Nuremberg Laws (September 1935)
  • Peukert, Detlev. "The Genesis of the 'Final Solution' from the Spirit of Science."
Week 10
17The Rise of the SS State, and Everyday Life under Nazism
18Outbreak of the Second World WarFest. pp. 62-67. (Hitler)
Week 11
19The Course of the War, and the Eastern FrontBegin reading Browning. Ordinary Men.
20
  • Origins of the "Final Solution" and the Machinery of Mass Murder
  • Film Excerpt from Die Ewige Jüde
  • Discussion

    Report of Einsatzgruppe C (1941)
    Minutes of the Wannsee Conference (1942)
Week 12
21
  • Discussion

    Browning. Ordinary Men.
  • Fest, Joachim. The Face of the Third Reich. (Höss)
22Meeting with Instructor: Review of "Der Brand" (Strategic Bombing)Read Primo Levi. Survival in Auschwitz.
Week 13
23
  • The Defeat of Germany and Götterdammerung
  • Discussion

    Allen. The Nazi Seizure of Power.
    Fest, Joachim. The Face of the Third Reich.
24"Zero Hour" and Denazification
Week 14
25
  • Film: Germany Year Zero. (1947, 78 minutes)
  • or Somewhere in Berlin (Irgendwo in Berlin) (1946, DEFA), 79 minutes.
26
  • Discussion of Film
  • The Legacy of Nazism in History, Memory and Myth
Week 15
Final Exam

 








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