PVP 2 - The History of National Socialism I: The Coming of the Third Reich 1918-1933 - AHS666609

• Title: PVP 2 - The History of National Socialism I: The Coming of the Third Reich 1918-1933
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Economic and Social History (21-UHSD)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 1
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, colloquium [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Is provided by: AHS788266
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Dr. PD Norman Domeier
• Class: A – Mezioborová nabídka VP: Historické vědy; Exchange - 08.3 History

Annotation

Last update: PhDr. Barbora Štolleová, Ph.D. (06.02.2024)

Seminar The History of National Socialism: The Coming of the Third Reich 1918-1933

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Time Thursday, 15:55-17:30

Location C 144 (Celetna)

Starting 22 February 2024

Moodle Tba in the first session

In this lecture we are going to tackle the question how the Nazis managed to destroy democracy and finally seize power in Germany between the early 1920s and 1933. We will explore how the First World War, the Weimar Republic with its political turmoils and the Great Depression paved the way for Nazi rule, first in Germany, then in broad parts of Europe. What started as “little more than a gang of extremists and thugs” (Richard Evans) turned, following Mussolini’s role model of Italian Fascism, within a few years into a political, social and cultural movement of millions of supporters. However, the rise of the National Socialist movement in Germany and its political messiah Adolf Hitler was certainly not inevitable or a teleological necessity. Hence we will discuss critically, based on international research literature, how we are to understand and an-alyse the rise of Nazism.

Course completion requirements

Last update: PhDr. Barbora Štolleová, Ph.D. (06.02.2024)

Regular and active participation; presentation (10 minutes); essay in English (5-8 pages)

3/4 Credits ; 6 Credits (Erasmus students) depending on the enrollment code

Literature

Last update: PhDr. Barbora Štolleová, Ph.D. (06.02.2024)

Richard J. Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich, London 2003.

- Ian Kershaw, Hitler 1889–1936: Hubris, London 1999.

- Henry Ashby Turner jr., Hitlers Thirty Days to Power: January 1933, New York 1996.

- Martin Broszat, Hitler and the Collapse of Weimar Germany, Providence 1987 (1984).

- Thomas Weber, Becoming Hitler. The Making of a Nazi, New York 2017.

- Brendan Simms, Hitler. Only the World Was Enough, London 2019.

Syllabus

Last update: PhDr. Barbora Štolleová, Ph.D. (06.02.2024)

1. Organisation and Introduction – 22 February

 

2. German Peculiarities (2-22) – 29 February

 

3. The Weaknesses of Weimar (78-103) – 7 March

 

4. Bohemian Revolutionaries (156-176) – 14 March

 

5. The Beer Hall Putsch (176-195) – 21 March

 

6. The Roots of Commitment (217-231) – 28 March

 

7. The Victory of Violence (266-289) – 4 April  

 

8. The Terror Begins (310-328) – 11 April

 

9. Bringing Germany into Line (375-391) – 25 April

 

10. A „Revolution of Destruction“? (441-462) – 2 May 

 

11. Final Discussion – 9 May

 

12. Topics for Essays – 16 May