Nazi Germany and the Holocaust

Calendar

SES #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
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?
3	Total 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
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). Nenno, Nancy. “Feminity, the Primitive, and Modern Urban Space: Josephine Baker in Berlin.”
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.
Week 7
11	The Great Depression and the Polarization of Politics
12	Discussion Allen, William S. The Nazi Seizure of Power.
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 Fest, Joachim. The Face of the Third Reich. (Goebbels)
Week 9
15	Discussion Allen, William S. The Nazi Seizure of Power.
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) Minutes of the Wannsee Conference (1942)
Week 12
21	Discussion Browning. Ordinary Men. Fest, Joachim. The Face of the Third Reich. (Höss)
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. Fest, Joachim. The Face of the Third Reich.
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.
26	Discussion of Film The Legacy of Nazism in History, Memory and Myth
Week 15
	Final Exam