HIST 7010 - From Weimar to Hitler: Germany 1918-1945

3 cr.

This class, run as a seminar with joint student/faculty leadership, traces the developments that led to the collapse of the Weimar Republic and the National Socialist acquisition of power in Germany. Issues covered include social and economic trauma after the first World War, the relationship between state and society in the Weimar Republic, political fragmentation, the reaction against modernist culture, the National Socialist power, everyday life in National Socialist Society, women and National Socialism, racist ideology and extermination.