HISTORY 430. Nazi Germany, 1933-1945

Professor: Robert W. Brown

Course Description

An interdisciplinary history and analysis of Nazi Germany (1933-1945), emphasizing aspects of political, social, cultural, and intellectual life as well as the legacy of Nazism, including historiography.

Course Information

Course Syllabus

Course Outline and Assigned Readings

Primary Sources and Images

Nazism During the Weimar Republic, 1919-1929

The Nazis in Power, Gleichschaltung, 1933-1939

The Second World War in Europe, 1939-1945

Lecture Outlines

Weimar Germany and the Origins of the Nazi Movement
The Nazis in Power: The Consolidation of Power, Gleichschaltung, and Foreign

Policy, 1933-1939
The Nazis at War: World War II in Europe, 1939-1945

Discussion Questions and Notes

Discussion Questions: Adolf Hitler and the Building of the Nazi Party
Discussion Questions: Adolf Hitler and the Ideology of Nazism
Discussion Questions: The Volksgemeinschaft and the SS
Discussion Questions: The Problem of Museums and Memorials

Notes on the German Historikerstreit