HIST 7160 - Nazi Germany: What We Know Now

3 cr.

Long after the end of the Second World War and the fall of the Nazi Dictatorship, multiple new approaches to the history of the Nazi era have shifted our understanding of state and society in Nazi Germany. New research still stresses the extreme violence and racism of Nazi rule, but we now possess a much more complex and troubling picture of state and society, This class will focus in particular on showing how the Nazi leadership mobilized popular support for the regime and on investigating how wide circles of the population found reason to take active part in supporting the regime and its policies. The class will examine both complicity and resistance at the grass roots level.