| 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?
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| 3 | Total War and Total (?) Defeat | |
| Week 3 |
| 4 | - Revolution and the Weimar Constitution
- Discussion
- Remarque, Jünger. "Letters from the Front and Home Front"
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| 5 | - The Treaty of Versailles
- Economic Shock
- Paramilitary Politics
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| 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."
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| 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.
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| Week 7 |
| 11 | The Great Depression and the Polarization of Politics | |
| 12 | - Discussion
- Allen, William S. The Nazi Seizure of Power.
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| 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)
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| Week 9 |
| 15 | - Discussion
- Allen, William S. The Nazi Seizure of Power.
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| 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)
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| Week 12 |
| 21 | - Discussion
- Browning. Ordinary Men.
- Fest, Joachim. The Face of the Third Reich. (Höss)
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| 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.
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| 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
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| Week 15 |
| Final Exam | |