COURSE OUTLINE AND READING ASSIGNMENTS
History of Nazi Germany
History 437
Prof.-Dr. Max Riedlsperger
Office FOB 25C
Read: Fischer, Chapters 1-3. Sax/Kuntz, pgs. 1-11; Mayer in entirety.
Films: The Longest Hatred
Map of Germany after the Treaty of Versailles.
Read: Fischer, Chapters 4-7 and "Who Supported Hitler?" pgs. 259-263
Sax/Kuntz, Chps. 1-3, and pp. 189-210.
Kolb, Eberhard, Was Hitler's Seizure of Power on January 30, 1933 Inevitable? Click here.
Optional, but useful for both party leaders and German voters in understanding the political environment of this period. Childers, Thomas. "the Social Language of Politics in Germany: The Sociology of Political discourse in the Weimar Republic, " American Historical Review, vol. 95, Nr. 2 (1990), 331-358. On Reserve in the Library.
Click here for Political Poster art
Click here for a graphic illustrating the inflation of 1923
Web-German Propaganda Archive, click here. Mostly post-1933, but some Weimar stuff.
Click here for a table analyzing the correlation between political radicalization in the period 1928 and 1932 and the impact of the depression.
Films:
The Blue Angel --- 19. October
Cabaret ----- 26. October
Newspapers due from Party Leaders:
April, 11----1919: Newspapers from 2001 Click on the underlined link to advance to the next paper.
1919 from 1999
April 18,------- 1923. Newspapers from 2001. From 1999 1923
April 25, -----1927. Newspapers from 2001. From 1999 1927
April 30----- 1932 Newspapers from 2001
Simulation: Herr Reichskanzler, October 26
Mid-Term: ?
Read: Fischer, Chapters 8-9
Films:
The New Germany (In Library: V-7219 (Vid.c)
The Wonderful Terrible World of Leni Riefenstahl (Time permitting)
Click here for a discussion of whether Leni Riefenstahl was really a Nazi and links to analysis of her films, images and much more.
Read: Fischer, Chapters 10-11
Sax/Kuntz, Ch. 5-10.
Smelser, Ronald. "How Modern were the Nazis? DAF Social Planning and the Modernization Question." German Studies Review. XIII, Nr. 2 (May, 1990), 285-302 (On Reserve in the Library). Click here to go to the e-reserve of the library for a copy.
Click here for a DAF poster appealing to women.
Click here for a WWW overview of the Nazi use of art.
Click here for a collection of documents posted by Rutgers University Law that were collected for the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials after World War II.
Click here for a reproduction of Nazi "racial science" propaganda. Click here for a photo showing racial instruction in the schools.
Click here for a Nazi anti-Semitic poster.
Click on the VW car for access to the German electronic museum display on the KdF.
Click here for a German Labor poster.
Click here for a photo showing Hitler Youth (HJ) meeting.
Völkisch values: Ten Commandments for choosing a German mate. Click here .
Films:
Olympia time permitting.
Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art). See Catalog in the Library, N6868 .D3388 1991.
Read: Fischer, Chapter 11.
FYI: The Munich Conference, September, 1938: The Pact. You can access an audio clip along with a description of the threats that Hitler used to force this conference as well as Chamberlain's speech in England upon returning from the Conference from the sound archives of the History Channel. Click on the link provided here and then type in Chamberlain where it says "Search." Go to the bottom of the Chamberlain page where this link takes you and click on the sound link "Prime Minister Chamberlain Speaks after returning from Munich Conference. "
FYI: Click here and here for sites leading to many documents relating to the origins and the course of the Second World War.
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