| 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). | |
| 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 | |
| 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) | |
| 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. | |
| 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 | ||
