Final Exam Question and Identifications
You will be asked to write on your choice of the following questions:
- Were the Germans culturally predisposed to Nazism?
or
- Was the Nazi seizure of power, and the ensuing perpetration of the Holocaust, avoidable? Why or why not?
Both questions are very broad; in thinking about the topic, plan to write for about an hour.
Also, remember that I’ll ask a short (two paragraphs or so) essay question on Primo Levi’s book, Survival in Auschwitz.
List of Identifications
I will choose 10 of these for the exam:
- Albert Speer
- “Alliance of Iron and Rye”
- Appeasement
- Beer Hall Putsch
- “Black Horror on the Rhine”
- blitzkrieg
- “Burgfrieden” (“Peace of the Fortress”)
- Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg
- Der Stürmer
- DNVP (Deutschnational Volks Partei)
- Dresden
- Erich Ludendorff
- Ernst Röhm
- Freikorps
- Friedrich Ebert
- Friedrich Fabri
- Gleichschaltung
- Homage to Oskar Panizza
- Joseph-Arthur, count de Gobineau
- Josephine Baker
- Kapp Putsch
- Käthe Kollwitz
- Kommissar Order
- Krystalnacht
- “Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily-Diseased Offspring”
- Morgenthau Plan
- Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity/New Matter-of-Factness)
- Nuremberg Laws
- Operation Sea Lion
- Reinhard Heydrich
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Sicherheitsdienst (SD)
- Spartacus League
- Stahlhelm
- Stalingrad
- Sturmabteilungen (SA)
- Sudetenland
- Tirpitz
- Verdun
- Versailles Treaty
- völkisch
- Volkskörper
- Wansee Conference
- Yellow Star
- Zero Hour
