06-Nazi Germany

LECTURE 06 A Nazi Germany-Mein Kampf-Intro

LECTURE 06 B Nazi Germany-Mein Kampf


LECTURE 06 C Nazi Germany-Mein Kampf

LECTURE 06 D Nazi Germany-Triumph of the Will

BACKGROUND SURVEY MATERIALS 
REQUIRED BACKGROUND THEMATIC MATERIALS
  • Mosse, Nazi Culture  George L. Mosse, Nazi Culture: Intellectual, Cultural and Social Life in the Third Reich (NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1966), introduction. [A thematic introduction to a collection of National Socialist documents.]
  • Kershaw, Hitler Myth, Chapter 1 Ian Kershaw, The 'Hitler Myth': Image and Reality in the Third Reich (NY & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987)
REQUIRED PRIMARY MATERIALS
MAIN THEMES FOR CONSIDERATION
  • Anti-Modernity (Urbanism/Industrialization)
  • Anti-Modernism (Cultural)
  • Racial Anti-Semitism
  • Leader Principle
  • Search for Order
  • Search for Unification/Community
  • Brutality of Politics
  • Dehumanization of Enemies
  • Impact of First World War
  • Emotionalism/Anti-Intellectualism 
  • Neo-Classical Aesthetics
  • Invocation of Romantic Political Culture
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