Hist 341 Germany Since Bismarck Schedule

History 341 Germany Since Bismarck Schedule Fall 2022

Please read the assignments in advance of the day they are listed.

"TEXT" indicates our online compact "textbook," by the German Historical Institute: http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/index.cfm

August 24--Introduction--Deutschland Über Was??
    The German World: German Confederation, Austria-Hungary, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Etc.

Aug. 26--German "Constitutions": The Holy Roman Empire, Switzerland, and Other German matters since the Peace of Westphalia
Read these two brief info sheets from my Hist 143 course:
A HABSBURG PRIMER
THE SHORT NINETEENTH CENTURY: LIBERALISM. REFORM, and NATIONALISM

Aug 29--The 1850s and 60s: Bismarck and Unification I
read the two info sheets from last Friday's class.

Aug 31--Unification and the Kaiserreich, 1871-1900
TEXT--read text only (explore the documents and images if you like)
http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=519

Sep 2--More on Unification AND Discussion of Writing Assignments
TEXT--read the text fully and also the documents/graphics mentioned below.
http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=2290

Sep 5--Unification and Empire
No Reading

Sep 7--In class discussion of Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest, and a 4X reading quiz. We will be looking for clues to women in late nineteenth-century Prussia, social attitudes, and more.

Sep 9--Germany and the Coming of the War
TEXT--"Wilhelmine Germany" sections 1 through 6, WITH DOCS, MAPS, and AT LEAST 5 IMAGES
http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/chapter.cfm?subsection_id=71

Sep 12--Outbreak of War.
Read from the Text the single page "VI--Germany in International Affairs" https://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/chapter.cfm?subsection_id=71
            and along with it, the following Documents:
    https://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=780&language=english
    https://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=779&language=english
   https://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=792&language=english

And also read this interesting historical contemplation:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-nicky-and-willy-could-have-prevented-world-war-i/2014/07/25/192165ca-1275-11e4-98ee-daea85133bc9_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.fddda534dc11
AND
the actual correspondence between Wilhelm and Nicholas here:
https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_Willy-Nicky_Telegrams

Sep 14--Germany's Great War.
TEXT only
https://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/chapter.cfm?subsection_id=72
https://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/chapter.cfm?subsection_id=73
https://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/chapter.cfm?subsection_id=74
https://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/chapter.cfm?subsection_id=75
https://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/chapter.cfm?subsection_id=76

Sep 16--Germany and Other Germans During the War.
Read "War Losses (Austria-Hungary) International Encyclopedia of the First World War
https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/war_losses_austria-hungary
AND read and look at http://weimarart.blogspot.com/2011/02/art-of-first-world-war.html; look carefully at the artworks and text. Please try to remember some names, above all Kirchner, Kokoschka, and Dix.

Sep 19--War on the Battle Front and Home Front
No reading.

Sep 21--Collapse, Revolution, Peace.
Read three entries from my Paris Peace Conference blog
http://parispeace1919.blogspot.com/2009/01/german-revolution-german-politics.html
    http://parispeace1919.blogspot.com/2009/06/framework-of-events-mayjune-at-paris.html
        http://parispeace1919.blogspot.com/2009/01/top-ten-events-in-tumultuous-history-of.html

Sep 23--The Weimar Republic: Hyperinflation, Violence, and Other Matters
TEXT--"Weimar Germany (1918/19-33)" WITH ALL DOCS, MAPS, AND IMAGES
http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/section.cfm?section_id=12

Sep 26--Two Germans: Erich Ludendorff and Adolf Hitler.
Read John Simkins's excellent short bio of Hitler up to 1924:
https://spartacus-educational.com/GERhitler.htm

Sep 28--Depression, Radicalization, Politics.
read short lecture by historian Gerhard Rempel:
http://www.johndclare.net/Rempel_Nazi27.htm
And this lengthy article by John Simkins giving a substantial bio of Ernst Röhm, leader of the Sturmabteilungen (SA)
https://spartacus-educational.com/GERroehm.htm

Sep 30--Machtergreifung
Goebbels on propaganda, 1931 (at Randall Bytwerk's site)
http://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/wille.htm Wikipedia: The Potempa Murder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potempa_Murder_of_1932
    Wikipedia on German Federal Elections: concentrate on the Weimar Republic elections for discussion in class
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Germany#Weimar_Republic_elections
    also read the short OSS interview with Arnold Brecht:
    http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/h/hitler-adolf/oss-papers/text/oss-sb-brecht.html

Oct 3--Germany and the coming of World War II.
TEXT--"Nazi Germany" sections I, II, III, VI. WITH DOCS, MAPS, and all images. And read section VIII, no docs, maps, or images.
http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=2489

Oct 5--Midterm Exam

Oct 7----No Class. Fall Break

Oct 10--The Third Reich in "Peace" and War.
IV, VII, VII, IX, X, XI
http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=2489

Oct 12--"Wollt Ihr den totalen Krieg?"
TEXT--"Nazi Germany" Sections XII, XIII, read documents only if you like.
http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=2489

Oct 14--The Last Phases of the Third Reich in War.
Discussion of Courageous Hearts--please read all of it. 4x reading quiz

Oct 17--The Holocaust.
TEXT V with images etc.
http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=2489
    From the History Place site, "Holocaust Timeline" (No need to memorize, but read it carefully)
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/timeline.html

Nazi Resettlement Policy and the Search for a Solution to the Jewish Question, 1939-1941

The Nazi Decision to Commit Mass Murder: Three Interpretations: The Euphoria of Victory and the Final Solution: Summer-Fall 1941 Oct 19-- Q&A on the War and the Holocaust, plus discussion of Christopher Browning, Ordinary Men. Reading quiz 4x

Oct 21--No Class.
Work on your paper and on reading the De Zayas book for Wed., Oct. 26.

Document Editing Project is due on Friday, October 21, at 5:00pm via Turnitin.

Oct 24--From War to No War: Surrenders, Nuremberg, Occupation
Read this short bio of Albert Speer
https://spartacus-educational.com/GERspeer.htm

Oct 26--Some Costs of War I. Read de Zayas, A Terrible Revenge AND Richard Wiggers's article on Allied food policy.

Oct 28--Das Jahr Null

Oct 31--Teufelsbergen! Germany as Rubble Heaps
WatchYoutube color footage of Berlin bombing destruction, 1945
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss2FuoFHkIc
Also read (via JSTOR, through Abell Library)
"The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945, and the German Response: Dilemmas of Judgment"
Earl R. Beck
German Studies Review, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Oct., 1982), pp. 325-337 (Find this on JSTOR)

Nov 2--Economic Miracle.
Read the excellent short encyclopedia entry by David Henderson in the Encyclopedia of Economics
    http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/GermanEconomicMiracle.html
    and the Wikipedia entries on Adenauer and Erhard:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Adenauer
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Erhard

Nov 4--TEXT--"Occupation and the Emergence of Two States (1945-1961)"--Read the text and maps, but just browse the documents.
http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/section.cfm?section_id=14

Nov 7--East and West. Spend an hour browsing, looking at pictures, and reading on the website "Berlin Wall Online"
TEXT--"Two Germanies (1961-1989)" Read the Introduction text only. Pictures and maps if you like.
http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=367
And look carefully at this website:
http://www.dailysoft.com/berlinwall/index.html

Nov 9--The Bonn Republic.
First reading TBA
Also read: the Wikipedia entries on Franz Josef Strauss:
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Josef_Strauß
and Willi Brandt
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Brandt

Nov 11--No class--finish your paper!

Analytical Bibliography is due at 5:00pm on Friday, Nov. 11, via Turnitin.com

Nov 14--Inside Communist Germany.
For class, read Stasiland. Discussion and 4x reading quiz Nov 9--No Class: Write your paper
Also read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Demokratische_Republik

Nov 16--The Last Phase of the Cold War.
Read also this article on Ronald Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" Speech.
And watch the speech---youtube link TBA

Nov 18--Die Wende: The Fall of the Wall
TEXT--"One Germany in Europe (1989-2009)"-- Read Introduction text, sections 1 through 3, with images, and maps. Read the documents only if you want to.
http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/section.cfm?section_id=16

THANKSGIVING WEEK

Nov 28--Some comments on contemporary Germany
TEXT--"One Germany in Europe (1989-2009)"-- Read Introduction text, sections 4 through 7, with images, and maps. Read the documents only if you want to.
http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/section.cfm?section_id=16
Also, the Wikipedia entries on Helmut Kohl and Angela Merkel.

Nov 30--No class: Finish your paper!

Biographical Essay is due on Wed, Nov 30, at 5:00pm via Turnitin.

Dec 2--Last class, summing up.