Listening Guide 01: Introduction to Course

01: Introduction to Course

• 0:00-6:49 Opening comments.
• 6:49-40:53 Discussion of Triumph of the Will and what cultural and intellectual historians do with it in studying history of National Socialism. Timings in Triumph of the Will on YOUTUBE: [http://youtu.be/GHs2coAzLJ8 [Whole]
• 6:49-11:45 Beginning of Film to Pause: [http://youtu.be/GHs2coAzLJ8] 0:00-3:53
• 11:45-14:49 Discussion of Nazi invocation of tradition and modern: Reactionary Modernism.
• 14:49-19:24 : Discussion of crowd scene and Hitler riding into town center. [http://youtu.be/GHs2coAzLJ8?t=4m37s]4:37-9:10
• 19:24-22:19 Discussion of SS background.
• 22:19-26:30 Start of Memorial Rally [http://youtu.be/GHs2coAzLJ8?t=1h1m36s] 1:01:36-1:05:00
• 26:30-27:37 Entrance of SS [http://youtu.be/GHs2coAzLJ8?t=1h6m5s] 1:06:05-1:05:51
• 27:37-32:21 Discussion of Nazi cultural appeal
• 32:21-37:57 Blood Flag Ritual [http://youtu.be/GHs2coAzLJ8?t=1h10m35s] 1:10:35-1:12:07
• 37:57-40:53 Discussion of cultural historical approach to German history.
• 40:53-44:37 Discussion of the various German Flags on the site:
• Image of Flag: Imperial-Wilhelmine Germany
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• Image of Flag: 1848 & Weimar & West Germany & Berlin Republic (today)
  

• Image of Flag: Nazi Germany
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• Image of Flag: East Germany
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• 44:37-51:23 Background of multiple “Germanies,” or multiple notions of what “Germany” might be,  from 18th century on.
• 51:23-53:29 Brief summary of Bismarck’s “Small German” Unification in 1870-71.
• 53:29-58:16 Reiteration of main point that there have long been many Germanies: geographical, cultural, and political.