hist / euro 252: politics, society and culture in modern

6 June 2021

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of History

HIST / EURO 252: Politics, Society and Culture in Modern Germany (1871–1949) Fall 2021 Syllabus Instructor: Dr. Karen Hagemann Time of the Course: Tuesday and Thursday: 11:00 am – 12:15 pm Remote Synchronous Zoom is open 15 min. before and after each class for any questions, comments or a chat Virtual Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday: 1:00-2:30 pm or by appointment Email: [email protected]

SHORT DESCRIPTION

This course explores the history of Modern Germany by focusing on Imperial Germany, the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. We will study continuities and changes in politics, society, and culture and examine the lasting impact of World War I and II, the Third Reich and the Holocaust.

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AIMS AND AGENDA This course will introduce students to the history and culture of Modern Germany, one of the leading powers of today’s Europe. We will start with the study of politics, society and culture of Imperial Germany (1875-1918) and the First World War, which ended with a defeat for Germany and led to the November Revolution of 1918. One central time period of our investigation will be Weimar Germany (1919-1933) with its exciting metropolitan culture and reform-oriented politics in all areas of everyday life and culture: art, design and mass media, gender relations, healthcare, housing, and welfare. We also will study the hyperinflation of 1921-23 and the Great Depression and their consequences on politics and society, particularly the rise of conservatism and communism, militarism and National Socialism. The other central period will be the Third Reich (1933-1945) with its racist and imperialist policy that led to World War II and the Holocaust. We will examine not only the history of the NS state and its support by “Aryan Germans,” but also the persecution of political opponents and everybody labeled by the Nazis as socially and racially “unworthy” (Jews, Sinti and Roma, disabled persons, homosexuals etc.) as well as the resistance movement against the NS regime. We will end with the foundation of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the eats and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) in the West. Throughout the entire course one of the major questions will be in which ways the Janus face of Modern German history and culture influenced the interwar development and the long postwar in East and West Germany and in the united country today.

FORMAT OF THE COURSE The course will combine introductory lectures with regular discussions of assigned readings of secondary literature, as well as textual and visual primary documents. I will split up the class regularly in small virtual discussion groups by creating breakout rooms. Participating in discussion is important both as a skill and as a learning opportunity. Preparation for and participation in the class discussions are therefore key requirements for this course.

Students are not required to have prior knowledge of Germany or German history.

ASSIGNMENTS General Course Participation 10% Written Homework: Forum Assignments on Sakai 25%

(Eleven are noted on the Syllabus, I count the eight best)

Primary Document Report (c. 6-7 pages) (Due: Oct. 29, 2021, 9:00 am) 30 %

(On October 7, I will post the assignment at the latest) Final Examination (Film Analysis) (c. 8-10 pages) (Due: Dec. 1, 2021, 9:00 am) 35 %

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Class Participation (10%):

Active class participation is very important in this course. Your participation grade will reflect your attendance and active participation in class. Read the required reading and primary documents, bring them to class and be prepared to discuss them. The secondary literature provides you with historical background information about the subject of class and also will help you to understand the primary documents. The handout with questions for the reading will help you to explore the texts. If you participate regularly in every class you will get an "A"; if you participate only sporadically you will get a "B"; if you say nothing you will get a "C."

If you find that you have difficulty speaking in class, please see me to discuss strategies how you can participate more fully. You can also make up a less active in-class participation by additional voluntary Forum contributions to the classes for which no Forum contribution is requested. This voluntary Forum contributions are due at 4 pm before the respective class. For four good additional voluntary Forum contributions (graded with a B or better) you will get an "B."

I expect all students to show their face in the virtual class and participate actively. If you hide behind a black screen and your white name will not count as attendance.

Written Forum Assignments on Sakai (25% of the final grade):

An important part of your class work are the weight obligatory written Forum assignments listed in the class schedule below. Please submit a comment and questions on the secondary readings or the primary documents assigned for the class or respond to a set of two or three questions on the handout for the class. On SAKAI you will find a guide with four alternative formats for your Forum contribution. In addition, you can also comment on and respond to comments and questions of others on the Forum of the respective week. In this way, I hope to create a dialogue already before the class starts. In this way, I hope to create a dialogue already before the class starts. Your Forum contribution is due not later than 4 pm on the evening before the class. They should not be longer than one page. Please see the guide on Sakai.

Report on a Primary Document (30%):

Every student will be responsible for writing one essays (6-7 pages) focusing on the analysis and interpretation of an assigned primary text document on a subject we talk about in class. I will place more detailed information for the primary document report on Sakai at latest three weeks before the due date.

Please submit an electronic file to the grader.

Please see the guides on Sakai.

Final Examination (Film Analysis) (35%)

Every student will have to write a film essay (8-10 pages) of an assigned movie. I will pick a movie that we watched in class and assign related background reading. In addition, I expect that you use all relevant secondary readings from the class for the essay and search for additional material that will help you with the analysis and interpretation of the movie and its historical context in the UNC Library and online. I will place more detailed information on Sakai at latest three weeks before the due date.

Please submit an electronic file to the grader.

General Comment: All papers should have 1-inch margins, be typed and double-spaced and the pages need to be numbered. Please don’t forget your name, the course number and name, and the date at the top of the cover page and make sure that you use all relevant readings of the course and if necessary additional literature for the assignments; document your sources in the footnotes and the bibliography of

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each paper with complete and correct citations. As common in history, use the Chicago Manual of Style for the writing of your notes and the bibliography. The preparation of all assignments will be discussed in class. A guide to the Chicago Manual of Style can be found on Sakai.

SECONDARY LITERATURE, PRIMARY SOURCES, DOCUMENTARIES AND MOVIES Secondary Literature: Books, Book Chapters and Journal Articles

The following three books will provide you with an overview on twentieth century German history. We will discuss several selected chapters of them in class as required reading:

• Caplan, Jane, ed. Nazi Germany. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

• McElligot, Anthony, ed. Weimar Germany. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

• Retallack, James, ed. Imperial Germany 1871-1918. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

You will find them in the Textbook Department of the UNC Student Store.

In addition, we will read journal articles and chapters from the following books: • Anderson, Margaret Lavinia. Practicing Democracy: Elections and Political Culture in Imperial Germany.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.

• Blackbourn, David. The Long Nineteenth Century: A History of Germany, 1780-1918. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

• Fletcher, Roger, ed. Bernstein to Brandt: A Short History of German Social Democracy. London: Edward Arnold, 1987.

• Frevert, Ute. Women in German History: From Bourgeois Emancipation to Sexual Liberation. Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers, 1990.

• Fulbrook Mary. A History of Germany, 1918-2008: The Divided Nation. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.

• Large, David Clay, ed. Contending with Hitler: Varieties of German Resistance in the Third Reich. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

• Friedlander, Judith, ed. Women in Culture and Politics: A Century of Change. London: Bloomington, 1986.

• Garncarz, Joseph, ed. The Cinema of Germany. London: Wallflower, 2012.

• Heiduschke, Sebastian. East German Cinema: DEFA and Film History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

• Michalczyk, John J., ed. Confront! Resistance in Nazi Germany. New York, Lang, 2004.

• Moses, Dirk, ed. Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History. New York: Berghahn Books, 2008.

All articles and chapters we will read in class will be available on Sakai under the reading for the respective class.

Primary Sources

Primary documents (texts and images) are mostly taken from the following website: • “German History and Images” of the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC:

germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/

Most of these texts are quite short (1-3 pages) and include a brief introduction. We also will read primary text documents from:

• Bell, Susan Groag and Karen M. Offen, eds. Women, the Family and Freedom. Vol. 2. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1983.

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• Kaes, Anton, Martin Jay and Edward Dimendberg, eds. The Weimar Republic Sourcebook. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

• Stackelberg, Roderick and Sally Anne Winkle. Nazi Germany Sourcebook: An Anthology of Texts. New York: Routledge, 2002.

These documents will be available on Sakai too under the reading for the respective class.

Documentaries and Movies

Culture will play an important role in our class, next to politics and society. Therefore, we will watch and discuss important documentaries and German movies on selected issues of German history produced in different time periods. A list of the movies and more information on them you will find after the Course Program.

COURSE PROGRAM Week 1: Thursday, August 19, 2021: Introduction

• Why do you want to study Modern German History? • What do you know about 19th and 20th century Germany? • What is special for you about German history? • What is the connection between German, European and Global History? • What are your expectations for the course? • Our course work over the term

Week 2 Tuesday, August 24, 2021: Problems of the History of Imperial Germany

Required Reading — Background Literature: • Jürgen Kocka, “German History before Hitler: The Debate about the German Sonderweg,” Journal of

Contemporary History 23, no. 1 (1988): 3-16.

• James Retallack, “Introduction,” and “Chronology,” in Imperial Germany, ed. Retallack, 1-16 and 299-310. First Written Homework: Forum Assignment, due Monday, August 23, 2021 by 4:00 pm. I. The German Empire, 1871-1918 Thursday, August 26, 2021: The German Unification of 1871

Required Reading — Background Literature: • Katharine Anne Lerman, “Bismarckian Germany,” in Imperial Germany, ed. Retallack, 18-39.

• Mark Hewitson, “Wilhelmine Germany,” in Imperial Germany, ed. Retallack, 40-60.

If you want to read more:

• David Blackbourn, Nineteenth Century, 171-203.

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Required Reading — Primary Documents: • Map: Creation of the German Empire (1866-1871), at:

germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/map.cfm?map_id=374

• Document: Constitution of the German Empire (April 16, 1871), at: germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=1826

• Painting: Anton von Werner, The Proclamation of the German Empire (January 18, 1871) – Friedrichsruh Version (1885), at: germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=1403

Week 3: Tuesday, August 31, 2021: Economy and Society of the Empire

Required Reading — Background Literature: • Brett Fairbairn, “Economic and Social Developments,” in Imperial Germany, ed. Retallack, 61-82.

• Christopher Clark, “Religion and Confessional Conflict,” in Imperial Germany, ed. Retallack, 83-105.


• Blackbourn, Nineteenth Century, 265-303.

Required Reading — Primary Documents: • Document: Working-Class Life (1891), report by the protestant theologian and politician Paul Göhre

(1864-1928) at: germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=652

• Document: Lifestyle and Expenditures of a Public Servant's Family in Berlin (1889), at: www.germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=555

• Statistics: “Population Growth in Large Cities (1875-1910),” at: germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=1741

• Statistics: “Census Figures (1882-1907),” at: germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=653

• Statistics: “Household Income and Expenses (1909),” germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=654

• For general trends, please see the statistics and graphs on German economic and social History, 1816-2016 in the Sakai folder for this class. Look at them with a focus on the period from 1871-1914

Second Written Homework: Forum Assignment, due Monday, August 30, 2021 by 4;00 pm. Thursday, September 2, 2021: Political Culture and Political Parties

Required Reading — Background Literature: • Thomas Kühne, “Political Culture and Democratization,” in Imperial Germany, ed. Retallack, 174-195.

• Susan Tegel, “The SPD in Imperial Germany, 1871-1914,” in Bernstein to Brandt, ed. Fletcher, 16-24.


• Margaret Lavinia Anderson, Practicing Democracy, 152-179.


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Required Reading — Primary Documents: • Document: Socialist Workers’ Party of Germany, Gotha Program (May 1875) at:

www.germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=1844

• Document: Anti-Socialist Law (October 21, 1878), at: www.germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=1843

• Document: Socialist Leader August Bebel Condemns Anti-Socialist Legislation (September 16, 1878), at: www.germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=676

• Statistics: Elections to the German Reichstag (1871-1912): A Statistical Overview, at: www.germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=1850

• “Proletarians of the World, Unite!” (1889), text and image, at: germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=1457

• The German Social Security System (1913), text and image, at: germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=1689

Recommended Movie: • Rosa Luxemburg (FR, 1987), director Margarethe von Trotta (123 minutes, with English subtitles). Online

at: archive.org/details/RosaLuxemburg or You Tube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLo4TuBRN6U

Week 4: Tuesday, September 7, 2021: Women, Men and the Rise of the Women’s Movement

Required Reading — Background Literature: • Angelika Schaser, “Gendered Germany,” in Imperial Germany, ed. Retallack, 128-150.

If you want to read more: • Ute Frevert, Women in German History, 107-130.

Required Reading — Primary Documents: • Document: First Feminist Efforts: Statutes of the General German Women's Association (1865), at:

germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=450

• Document: Hedwig Dohm, “Women’s Right to Vote” (1876), at: www.germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=1762&language=english

• International Women’s Congress (1914), at: www.germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=1650

Required Movie: • Effi Briest (FRG, 1974), director Rainer Werner Fassbinder (135 minutes, with German subtitles). Please

watch the movie Online before class at UNC Kanopy Streaming: unc.kanopystreaming.com.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/video/effi-briest?final=1.

Third Written Homework: Forum Assignment, due Monday, September 6, 2021 by 4:00 pm Thursday, September 9, 2021: Militarism, Nationalism and Anti-Semitism

Required Reading — Background Literature: • Roger Chickering, “Militarism and Radical Nationalism,” in Imperial Germany, ed. Retallack, 196-218.

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• Oded Heilbronner, “From Antisemitic Peripheries to Antisemitic Centres: The Place of Antisemitism in Modern German History,” Journal of Contemporary History 35 (2000): 559-576.



Required Reading — Primary Documents: • Document: Declaration of 75 Notables against Antisemitism (November 12, 1880):


• Document: Antisemites’ Petition (1880-1881): germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=1801

• Document: The Conservatives Embrace Antisemitism: The Tivoli Program of the German Conservative Party (1892), at: www.germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=758

Week 5: Tuesday, September 14, 2021: German Imperialism in a Transnational Perspective

Required Reading — Background Literature: • Sebastian Conrad, “Transnational Germany,” in Imperial Germany, ed. Retallack, 219-241.

• Dominik J. Schaller, “From Conquest to Genocide,” in Empire, Colony, Genocide, ed. Moses, 296–324.


• George Steinmetz, “The First Genocide of the 20th Century and its Postcolonial Afterlives: Germany and the Namibian Ovaherero,“ The Journal 12, no. 2 (2005). Permalink: quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jii/4750978.0012.201?view=text;rgn=main

Required Reading — Primary Documents: • Document: Bernhard von Bülow on Germany's “Place in the Sun” (1897), at:


• Document: Another View of Things: Rosa Luxemburg (1913), at: germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=781

• Image: Herero Tribesmen Captured during the Herero War in German Southwest Africa (1904), at: germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=2180

Required Documentary: • Namibia - Genocide and the Second Reich, from RNA International/BBC 2004 (58 minutes). Please watch

the documentary Online before class on You Tube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhhOOPVdRQk or https://vimeo.com/104332787

Fourth Written Homework: Forum Assignment, due Monday, September 13, 2019 by 4:00 pm The First World War, 1914-1918 Thursday, September 16, 2021: Mobilizing for War: Politics and Warfare

Required Reading — Background Literature: • Blackbourn, Nineteenth Century, 334-347.

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• Annika Mombauer, “The Fischer Controversy: 50 Years On,” Journal of Contemporary History 48, no. 2 (2013): 231-240.

• Jeffrey Verhey, “War and Revolution,” in Imperial Germany, ed. Retallack, 242-263.

Required Reading — Primary Documents: • Image: The Kaiser Speaks from the Balcony of the Royal Palace (August 1, 1914), at


• Map: Germany and Europe in the First World War (1914-1918), at: www.germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/map.cfm?map_id=2177

• Documents: Bulletins from the Front I (1914), at: germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=804

• Postcard: “For the Fatherland” (c. 1918), at: www.germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=1729

Required Documentary: • 1914 Killing Fields, documentary of the WGBH series “People's Century” (United States 1995) (54 min.).

Please watch the documentary online before class on You Tube at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnT_3m01vQQ.

Week 6: Tuesday, September 21, 2021: The “Homefront”: The German Society and its Women at War

Required Reading — Background Literature: • Davis, Belinda J. “Homefront: Food, Politics and Women’s Everyday Life During the First World War.” In

Home/Front: The Military, War and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany, ed. Karen Hagemann and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, 115-139. Oxford: Berg Publisher, 2002.

• Frevert, Women in German History, 151-167.



Required Reading — Primary Documents: • Document: Hans Kollwitz (ed.), Diary and Letters of Käthe Kollwitz, Evanston: Northwestern University

Press, 1989, 62-64, 73, 87-90.

• Document: The Impact on Popular Morale (March 1917), at: www.germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=962

• Image: Women on the Home Front (c. 1916), at: www.germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=1726

• Image: “Hold Out!”: Postcard (1915), at: www.germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=2134&startrow=1

Fifth Written Homework: Forum Assignment, due Monday, September 20, 2021 by 4:00 pm

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Thursday, September 23, 2021: The War at the Front Lines in Perception and Cultural Memory: The Movie “All Quiet on the Western Front” (1930)

Required Movie: • All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen Nichts Neues) (United States, 1930), director: Lewis Milestone

(132 min.) Please watch the movie online before class at: www.veoh.com/watch/v1486715efNPr68g

Required Reading — Background Literature: • Modris Eksteins, “War, Memory, and Politics: The Fate of the Film all Quiet on the Western Front,” Central

European History 13, no. 1 (1980): 60-82.

Required Reading — Primary Sources: • Document: Soldiers describe combat II: Sophus Lange (1914-1915):


• Document: Soldiers describe combat III: Hans Stegemann (1914): germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=808

• Document: Soldiers describe combat IV: Max Beckmann (1915): germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=809: On the PowerPoint: Three Images by Max Beckmann: Self Portray as Orderly, 1915; The Shell (Die Granate), 1915; Assault (Sturmangriff), 1916

• Document: Soldiers describe combat V: Peter Hammerer (1916): germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=813

• Document: Bertold Brecht: Poem “Legend of the Dead Soldier”, 1917-18: www.goethe.de/ges/prj/nzv/ret/bbr/enindex.htm;

• This Poem as a German song in a contemporary version by Ernst Busch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9pAPnKUBAM

Week 7: II. The November Revolution 1918 and the Weimar Republic, 1919-1933 Tuesday, September 28, 2021: The November Revolution of 1918 and the Origins of the Weimar Republic

Required Reading — Background Literature: • Verhey, “War and Revolution,” in Imperial Germany, ed. Retallack, 242-263 (the same as for September

17).

• Mary Fulbrook, History of Germany, 15-37.

• Anthony McElligot, “Introduction,” in Weimar Germany, ed. McElligot, 1-25.

Required Reading — Primary Documents: • Document: Manifesto of the socialist women’s conference in 26-28 March 1915 in Bern: „Women of the

Working People!“

• Image: Sailors’ Uprising in Wilhelmshaven, Postcard (November 6, 1918), at: germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=2142

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• Document: The Kiel Sailors’ Revolt: Fourteen Points Raised by the Soldiers’ Council (November 4, 1918), at: www.germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=3939

• Statistics: German Federal Election, 1919, at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_1919.

• Image: Mass Demonstration in front of the Reichstag against the “Brutal Peace” (May 15, 1919), at: www.germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=2150

• Document: Versailles Treaty, Articles 231-238: Reparations (June 28, 1919), at: www.germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=3936

• Document: Paul von Hindenburg, “Stab in the Back,” in The Weimar Republic Sourcebook, ed. Kaes et al., 15-16.

Recommended Documentary: • “1919 Lost Peace,” documentary of the WGBH series “People's Century” (United States 1995) (54 min.).

Please watch the documentary Online before class on You Tube at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrlvD7RH8XM

Sixth Written Homework: Forum Assignment, due Monday, September 27, 2021 by 4:00 pm.

Thursday, September 30, 2021: The Political System and Culture of Weimar Germany

Required Reading — Background Literature: • Fulbrook, History of Germany, 15-37 (the same as for September 26)

• Anthony McElligot, “Political Culture,” in Weimar Germany, ed. McElligot, 26-49.

• Paul Bookbinder, Overview: Political Parties of the Weimar Republic, at: www2.facinghistory.org/Campus/weimar.nsf/FormPathDocuments/08C1D876685DEC6485256D17000198D2?opendocument#communist

Required Reading — Primary Documents: • Document: The Constitution of the German Empire of August 11, 1919 (Weimar Constitution), at:


• Statistics: German Federal Election, 1919, at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_1919.

• Statistics German Federal Election, 1920, at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_1920.

• Statistics German Federal Election, May 1924, at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_May_1924

• Statistics German Federal Election, Dec. 1924, at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_December_1924.

• Statistics German Federal Election, 1928, at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_1928

• Statistics German Federal Election, 1930, at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_1930.

Week 8: Tuesday, October 5, 2021: Women and the Politics of Gender in Weimar Germany

Required Reading — Background Literature: • Kathleen Canning, “Women and the Politics of Gender,” in Weimar Germany, ed. McElligot, 146-174.


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• Frevert, Women in German History, 168-204.

Required Reading — Primary Documents: • Document: Elsa Herrmann, “This is the New Woman” (1929), at:


• Document: Lola Landau, “The Companionate Marriage” (1929), at: germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=3888

• Document: Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung: "Enough is Enough! Against the Masculinization of Women" (1925), at: germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=3881

Seventh Written Homework: Forum Assignment, due Monday, October 4, 2021 by 4:00 pm. Thursday, October 7, 2021: The Weimar Economy, Society and its Welfare State

Required Reading — Background Literature: • Harold James, “The Weimar Economy,” in Weimar Germany, ed. McElligot, 102-126.

• Young-Sun Hong, “The Weimar Welfare State,” in Weimar Germany, ed. McElligot, 175-206.

Required Reading — Primary Documents: • Document: Heinrich Hauser, “The Unemployed,” (1933), in The Weimar Republic Sourcebook, ed. Kaes et

al., 84-85.

• Document: Textile Workers, “My Workday, My Weekend,” (1930), in ibid., 208-210.

Week 9: Tuesday, October 12, 2021: NO CLASS – University Day Thursday, October 14, 2021: The Modernization and Rationalization of Everyday Life

Required Reading — Background Literature: • Adelheid v. Saldern, “’Neues Wohnen’: Housing and Reform,” in Weimar Germany, ed. McElligot, 207-233.

Required Reading — Primary Documents: • Document: Bruno Taut, "An Architectural Program" (1919), at: germanhistorydocs.ghi-

dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=4005

• Document: Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, “Rationalization in the Household” (1926-27), at: germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=3885

• Image: The Frankfurt Kitchen by Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1926-1930), at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_kitchen

• Document: Otto Steinicke, “A Visit to a New Apartment” (1929), at: www.germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=3869

Week 10: Tuesday, October 19, 2021: Weimar Modernity, Class Conflict and Working Class Culture: The Movie “Kuhle Wampe” (1932)

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10:00 -10:45 AM: Preparation of the Primary Document Report I (Voluntary participation)

Required Movie: • Kuhle Wampe, or To whom does the World Belong (Kuhle Wampe oder, Wem gehört die Welt)

(Germany, 1932), manuscript: Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Ottwald, music Hanns Eisler, director: Slatan Th. Dudow (80 minutes). Please watch the movie online before class at: www.veoh.com/watch/v15329784zz8RMdBP.

Please inform yourself about the movie and its director as well as about Bertolt Brecht and Hanns Eisler. We will talk about the movie in class.

Required Reading — Background Literature: • Gal Kirn, “Kuhle Wampe: Politics of Montage, De-montage of Politics?” Film-Philosophy 11, no. 1 (2007):

33– 48.

• Marc Silberman, “The Rhetoric of the Image: Slatan Dudov and Berthold Brecht’s Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?” in German Cinema: Texts in Context (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1995), 34-48.

Additional Reading:

• Franz A. Birgel, “Kuhle Wampe, Leftist Cinema, and the Politics Film Censorship in Weimar Germany,” Historical Reflections 3, no. 2 (2009): 40-62.

Required Reading — Primary Documents: • Film scene from the movie Kuhle Wampe: “Solidaritätslied” (Solidarity Song) by Bertold Brecht and Hanns

Eisler: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8AaG5SSrdQ

• Document: The German and English text of the “Solidaritätslied” (Solidarity Song) by Bertold Brecht you will find on Sakai: 321ignition.free.fr/pag/en/art/pag_002/brech_01.htm

Eight Written Homework: Forum Assignment, due Monday, October 18, 2021 by 4:00 pm.

Thursday, October 21, 2021: Fall Break, no class Week 11: III. Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 Tuesday, October 26, 2021: The Collapse of Democracy and the Rise of Hitler

12:15 -1:00 PM: Preparation of the Primary Document Report II (Voluntary participation)

Required Reading — Background Literature: • Richard Evans, “The Emergence of Nazi Ideology,” in Nazi Germany, ed. Caplan, 26-47.

• Peter Fritzsche, “The NSDAP 1919-1934: From the Fringe Politics to the Seizure of Power,” in Nazi Germany, ed. Caplan, 48-72.

• Fulbrook, History of Germany, 38-55.

Required Reading — Primary Documents: • Statistics: German Federal Election, 1930, at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_1930

• Statistics: German federal Election, July 1932, at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_July_1932

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• Statistics: German federal Election, Nov. 1932, at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_November_1932

• Document: Reichskomitee of Working Women, “Aufruf, 1932” in Bell and Offen, Women, the Family and Freedom, vol. 2, 383-84.

• Document: Hitler, “Appeal to the German People” (January 31, 1933), at: www.germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=3940

• Document: Hamburg Schoolteacher Louise Solmitz on Hitler’s Seizure of Power (January-February 1933), at: germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=3942

Thursday, October 28, 2021: The NS State and Politics, 1933-1945

Required Reading — Background Literature: • Jane Caplan, “Introduction,” in Nazi Germany, ed. Caplan, 1-25.

• Jeremy Noakes, “Hitler and the Nazi State: Leadership, Hierarchy and Power,” in Nazi Germany, ed. Caplan, 73-98.

• Jill Stephenson, “Inclusion: Building the National Community in Propaganda and Practice,” in Nazi Germany, ed. Caplan, 99-121.

If you want to explore more: • Fulbrook, History of Germany, 56-79.

Required Reading — Primary Documents: • Document: The “Enabling Act” (March 24, 1933), at:


• Document: “Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases“ (July 14, 1933), at: www.germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=1521

• Document: “The Reich Citizenship Law” (September 15, 1935) and the First Regulation to the Reich Citizenship Law (November 14, 1935), at: www.germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=1523

• Image: NSDAP Mass Rally at the Sportpalast in Berlin (August 15, 1935), at germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=1901

Required Documentary: • Master Race, 1933 documentary of the WGBH series “People's Century” (United States 1995) (54 min.).

Please watch the documentary at home. (You Tube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXci6fcG2Yc) Primary document report is due on Friday, October 29, 2021 at 9 am

No Written Forum Homework this week. Week 12: Tuesday, November 2, 2021: Nazi Society, German Families and “Aryan” Women

Required Reading — Background Literature: • Frevert, Women in German History, 207-252.

• Stephenson, “Inclusion.” (the same as for October 24)

Required Reading — Primary Documents:

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• Document: Hitler’s Speech to the National Socialist Women’s League (September 8, 1934), at: germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=1557

• Document: Gertrud Scholtz-Kling, Speech to the National Socialist Women’s League, in Bell and Offen, Women, the Family and Freedom, vol. 2, 378-81.

• Image: “Germany Grows through Strong Mothers and Healthy Children”: Propaganda Poster by the Mother and Child Relief Agency (1935), at: germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=2045&language=english

• Document: “The Reich Citizenship Law” (September 15, 1935) and the First Regulation to the Reich Citizenship Law (November 14, 1935), at: germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=1523 (the same as for October 24).

• Document: Frau Marion Beyme’s Memories of Marburg and Berlin during the Third Reich (Retrospective Account), at: germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=1586

Ninth Written Homework: Forum Assignment, due Monday, November 1, 2021 by 4:00 pm.

Thursday, November 4, 2021: The Everyday Live of Jewish Germans before 1939 Required Reading — Background Literature:

• Marion Kaplan, “Jewish Women in Nazi Germany: Daily Life, Daily Struggles, 1933-1939,” Feminist Studies 16, no. 3 (1990): 579-606.

• “Refugees,” Holocaust Encyclopedia, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C., at: encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/refugees?parent=en%2F45075

• “Immigration to the United States,” Holocaust Encyclopedia, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C., at: encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/immigration-to-the-united-states-1933-41?parent=en%2F2419

Required Reading — Primary Documents: • Document: Victor Klemperer’s Diary Entry on the Impending Boycott of Jewish Businesses (March 31,

1933), at: germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=1519

• Document: “The Reich Citizenship Law” (September 15, 1935) and the First Regulation to the Reich Citizenship Law (November 14, 1935), at: germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=1523 (the same as for October 24)

• Document: American Consul Samuel Honaker's Description of Anti-Semitic Persecution and Kristallnacht and its Aftereffects in the Stuttgart Region (November 12 and November 15, 1938), at: germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=1525

Required Documentary: • The Night of Broken Glass (Germany 2008), director: Michael Kloft (51 min.) Please watch the

documentary Online before class at: UNC Kanopy Streaming: auth.lib.unc.edu/ezproxy_auth.php?url=unc.kanopystreaming.com/video/night-broken-glass?final=1.

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World War II and the Holocaust, 1939-1945 Week 13: Tuesday, November 9, 2021: World War II

Required Reading — Background Literature: • Fulbrook, History of Germany, 80-109.

• Gerhard Weinberg, “Foreign Policy in Peace and War,” in Nazi Germany, ed. Caplan, 196-218.

Suggested Reading (which you will have to read for the next class on November 7 in any way): • Doris L. Bergen, “Occupation, Imperialism and Genocide,” in Nazi Germany, ed. Caplan, 219-45.

Required Reading — Primary Documents: • Document: “Directive No. 21 Operation Barbarossa” (December 18, 1940), at:


• Document: “Directives for the Treatment of Political Commissars” ("Commissar Order") (June 6, 1941), at: germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=1548

• Map: Europe at the Beginning of December 1941, at: germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/map.cfm?map_id=2886

• Map: Europe in April 1944, at: www.germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/map.cfm?map_id=2888

Required Documentary: • Total War, 1939, documentary of the WGBH series “People's Century” (United States 1998) (54 min.).

Please watch the documentary Online before class on You Tube at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wVRoHKG5UI).

Recommended Movie Series: • I strongly recommend to watch on Netflix: Generation War (Unsere Väter – Unsere Mütter) (FRG, 2013),

director: Philipp Kadelbach (3 x 90 min.). Tenth Written Homework: Forum Assignment, due Monday, November 1, 2021 by 4:00 pm. Thursday, November 11, 2021: The Holocaust

Required Reading — Background Literature: • Doris L. Bergen, “Occupation, Imperialism and Genocide,” in Nazi Germany, ed. Caplan, 219-45.

• Nikolaus Wachsmann, “The Policy of Exclusion: Repression in the Nazi State, 1933-1939,” in Nazi Germany, ed. Caplan, 122-145.

• “Women during the Holocaust,” Holocaust Encyclopedia, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C., at: encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/women-during-the-holocaust

Required Reading — Primary Documents: • Document: Lily Offenbacher Shares Her Knowledge of the "Euthanasia" Program with the U.S. Coordinator

of Information (September 1941), at: germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=1529

• Document: The Wannsee Protocol (January 20, 1942), at: www.germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=1532

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• Document: Statistical Report on the "Final Solution," known as the Korherr Report (March 23, 1943), at: germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=1533

Required Documentary:

• The Holocaust: What the Allies Knew, documentary film written and directed by Virginie Linhart and produced by Fabienne Servan-Schreiber and Cinétévé. (San Francisco, California, USA 2014). Please watch the documentary online in the UNC Mediathek on Kanopy: https://unc.kanopy.com/product/holocaust-what-allies-knew

Recommended Documentary: • The Path to Nazi Genocide, documentary produced by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,

Washington D.C. (USA, 2014) (39 min.), Please watch the documentary online before class on You Tube at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRcNq4OYTyE.

Week 14: Tuesday, November 16, 2021: Resistance, Opposition and Protest, 1933-1945

Required Reading — Background Literature: • Martin Broszat, “A Social and Historical Typology of the German Opposition to Hitler,” in Contending with

Hitler, ed. Large, 25-33.

• Detlev J.K. Peukert, “Working-Class Resistance: Problems and Options,” in Contending with Hitler, ed. Large, 35-48

• Konrad Kwiet, “The Jewish Resistance,” in Contending with Hitler, ed. Large, 65-74.

• John J. Michalczyk and Franz Josef Müller, “The White Rose Student Movement in Germany: Its History and Relevance Today,“ in Confront, ed. Michalczyk, 211-220.

Required Reading — Primary Documents: • Document: Frau Marion Beyme’s Memories of Marburg and Berlin during the Third Reich (Retrospective

Account), at: germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=1586

• Image: Anti-Fascist Imagery: “This is the Salvation They are Bringing Us!” (AIZ, June 29, 1938), at: germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=2098

• Document: The Fifth Broadsheet of the “White Rose” (January 1943), at: germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=1515

Please explore the following websites on Jewish Resistance outside of Germany: • “Jewish Resistance,” Holocaust Encyclopedia, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington

D.C., at: encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/jewish-resistance?series=48599

• Animated Map: “Jewish Resistance,” Holocaust Encyclopedia, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C., at: encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/animated-map/resistance

• “Armed Jewish Resistance: Partisans,” Holocaust Encyclopedia, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C., at: encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/armed-jewish-resistance-partisans?parent=en%2F4358

Recommended Movie: • Sophie Scholl – The Final Days (Sophie Scholl – Die Letzten Tage), (FRG, 2005), director: Marc Rothemund

(120 min.). Please watch the movie before the class. The movies is available on YouTube at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXtC08tWxqA

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Eleventh Written Homework: Forum Assignment, due Monday, November 15, 2021 by 4:00 pm. IV. Postwar East and West Germany under Allied Occupation, 1945-1949 Thursday, November 18, 2021: The Legacy of War, Occupation and Division: East and West

Germany, 1945-1949

Required Reading — Background Literature:

• “The Aftermath of the Holocaust,” Holocaust Encyclopedia, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C., at: encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-aftermath-of-the-holocaust?series=48246

• “What is Genocide?,” Holocaust Encyclopedia, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C., at: encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/what-is-genocide

• “The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg,” Holocaust Encyclopedia, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C., at: encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/international-military-tribunal-at-nuremberg

• Fulbrook, History of Germany, 113-142

Required Reading — Primary Documents: • Map: Germany after the Second World War (September 1, 1945), at:

germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/map.cfm?map_id=520

• Map: Wartime Destruction in German Cities (Graphic Map from 1947), at: germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=4459

• Document: The Harrison Report on Displaced Persons, Allies and Germans (September 1945), at: germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=4108

• Document: OMGUS Survey on Worries and Hardship in Germany (May-October 1946), at: germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=3879

• Document: The Present Status of Denazification (December 31, 1950), at: germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=2308

Recommended Contemporary Films by the British and American Armed Forces, Information and Education Division and an interesting British documentary:

• Germany After World War II: A Defeated People. Information Film by the British War Department, Information and Education Division1946 (20 min.). You Tube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8XG-nbM3BE

• Your Job in Germany. Orientation Film for US Troops Occupying Germany by the American War Department, Information and Education Division, 1945 (14 min.). You Tube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCHeFjADTTs

• 1945 - The Savage Peace (BBC documentary from 2015 about the atrocities against ethnic Germans after 1945) (50 min.). archive.org/details/BBC1945TheSavagePeaceAtrocitiesAgainstGermans

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Week 15: Tuesday, November 23, 2021: Memories of the Nazi Regime, the Holocaust and World War War II in Postwar German Movies

Required Movies: • Somewhere In Berlin (Irgendwo in Berlin) (Germany 1946), director: Gerhard Lamprecht (85 min.). UNC

Library kanopy streaming: unc.kanopystreaming.com.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/video/somewhere-berlin

• The Murderers are Among Us (Die Mörder sind unter uns) (Germany, 1946), director Wolfgang Staudte (91 min.). UNC Library kanopy streaming: unc.kanopystreaming.com.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/video/murderers-are-among-us?final=1

Please watch both movies before class. Please inform yourself about the movies and their directors. We will discuss the movie in class.

Required Reading — Background Literature: • Erica Carter, “Die Mörder sind unter uns/The Murderers Are Among Us: Wolfgang Staudte, East Germany,

1946,” in The Cinema of Germany, ed. Garncarz, 109-117.

• Anke Pinkert, "Rubble Film as Archive of Trauma and Grief: Wolfgang Lamprecht’s “Somewhere In Berlin." In German Postwar Films: Life and Love in the Ruins, ed. Wilfried Willms and William Rasch, New York: Palgrave, 2008, 61-76.

Thursday, November 25, 2021: Thanksgiving Recess—Class Ends Final Examination Film Essay due until Wednesday, December 1, 2021 by 9:00 am.

SAKAI I will be using Sakai to make course materials, announcements, and other essential information available to you On this Sakai site you next to other things under

• SYLLABUS (the most recent syllabus); • RESOURCES (organized by classes all texts for the reading as pdf files and many more documents for the

course like a chronology, maps and tables as well as guidelines for the assignments). • COURSE RESERVE (access to library material) • A FORUM (for your weekly comments and questions on the reading).

Sakai is also a very important tool for our COMMUNICATION. You are expected to check Sakai and the email I sent to you regularly. Please familiarize yourself with the Sakai course web page. It is an essential tool for taking this course. -Intro to Sakai for Students (a video created for students as an introduction to Sakai). Please note: if you have dropped this course, the registrar will take you off the course email list within 48 hours. You do not need to contact the instructor or take any other action.

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RECOMMENDED MOVIES The yellow-marked documentaries and movies in the above course program we will discuss in class, but you will have to watch them beforehand on your own and prepare for the discussion. The others are recommendations.

Rosa Luxemburg (FRG, 1987), director: Margarethe von Trotta (123 minutes, with German subtitles).

The movie is available Online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiR0MmxB2qU:

More information on the movie at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Luxemburg_(film)

www.imdb.com/title/tt0091869/

Effi Briest (FRG, 1974), director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder (135 min.).

The movie is available at the UNC Library for Library use only and Online via the UNC Mediathek: unc.kanopystreaming.com.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/video/effi-briest?final=1

More information on the movie at:

• www.imdb.com/title/tt0071458/

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effi_Briest_(1974_film)

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Werner_Fassbinder

Based on the novel: Theodor Fontane, Effie Briest (in German: 1894-95). New York: Penguin Classics, 2001. More at: More at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effi_Briest

All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen Nichts Neues) (United States, 1930), director: Lewis Milestone (152 min.).

The movie is available at the UNC Library for Library use only (UNC Mediathek: 65-DVD1759) and Online via: www.veoh.com/watch/v1486715efNPr68g



en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Quiet_on_the_Western_Front_(1930_film)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Milestone

Based on the novel: Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front (in German: 1929). New York: Chelsea House Publications, 2009. More at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Quiet_on_the_Western_Front

and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Maria_Remarque

Kuhle Wampe, or Who Owns the World (Kuhle Wampe oder, Wem gehört die Welt?) (Germany, 1932), manuscript: Bert Brecht, Ernst Ottwald, director: Slatan Th. Dudow (London, 2007) (69 min.).

The movie is available online with English subtitles: www.veoh.com/watch/v15329784zz8RMdBP More information on the movie at:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuhle_Wampe


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slatan_Dudow

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht

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Sophie Scholl –The Final Days (Sophie Scholl– Die Letzten Tage) (FRG, 2005), director: Marc Rothemund (120 min.)

The movie is available in the UNC Mediathek, you can also watch in on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXtC08tWxqA


www.imdb.com/title/tt0426578/ (1976)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Scholl_%E2%80%93_The_Final_Days

Generation War (Unsere Väter – Unsere Mütter) (FRG, 2013), director: Philipp Kadelbach (3 x 90 min.).

The three-part German TV-series is with English subtitles available at Netflix.

More information on the TV series at:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_War

www.imdb.com/title/tt1883092/?ref_=nv_sr_1

The Murderers are Among Us (Die Mörder sind unter uns) (Germany, 1946), director: Wolfgang Staudte

This movie is available Online in the UNC Mediathek in German with English subtitles:

unc.kanopystreaming.com.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/video/murderers-are-among-us?final=1


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murderers_Among_Us

www.imdb.com/title/tt0038769/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Staudte

Somewhere In Berlin (Irgendwo in Berlin) (Germany, 1946), director: Gerhard Lamprecht

This movie is available Online in the UNC Mediathek in German with English subtitles:

unc.kanopystreaming.com.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/video/somewhere-berlin


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somewhere_in_Berlin


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Lamprecht

STUDENT SUPPORT AND RESOURCES UNC-Chapel Hill facilitates the implementation of reasonable accommodations for students with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, mental health struggles, chronic medical conditions, temporary disability, or pregnancy complications, all of which can impair student success. See the ARS website for contact and registration information: https://ars.unc.edu/about-ars/contact-us. Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) helps with consultation and connection to clinically appropriate services, whether for short or long-term needs. Go to their website: https://caps.unc.edu/ or visit their facilities on the third floor of the Campus Health Services building for a walk-in evaluation to learn more. I am also happy to support you in any way I can if you face challenges. Please set up meeting and talk to me.

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STUDENT SUPPORT AND RESOURCES

§ Keep Learning (student care hub with resources for all students) § The UNC Writing and Learning Center Resources (a helpful services available to students via the

UNC Writing & Learning Center) § Guidance for off-campus internet service (resources to obtain or improve home internet access)

RULES OF THE ROAD

1. Read this syllabus carefully. You should consider it a contract between you and the professor. Your enrollment in the course signifies your agreement to adhere to it. Keep it for reference.

2. Attendance will be taken in every class. I only count as attendance when you show your face in class on Zoom. No screen with an image and your name will be accepted as attendance! Not more than three missed classes will be allowed. After four missed classes, your participation grade will go down ten points for every day you miss class or a recitation section. Thus, if you have a B+, your participation grade will fall to a C+ or if you have a C, your grade will fall to a D. However, you can make-up excused absences in any class with an additional written homework on the Sakai Forum

3. No late papers or other written work will be accepted except in the case of documented dire emergencies. Remember to make electronic back-up copies of your drafts and papers; a hard disk crash a day or two before papers are due is not an acceptable excuse for turning in a late paper. If you face problems with a deadline for a paper, please contact me in advance, we will surely find a solution that will help you and can work together on an extension of the deadline.

4. Plagiarism: to take or pass off as one's own the ideas, key writings, etc. of another; to copy the exact words or to use key phrases from another author; to steal key ideas, even if you put them in your own words. If you do any of these things, without using a footnote to indicate your source, you are guilty of plagiarism. The exact words of another author must be put in quotation marks. Be forewarned that it is extremely easy to trace sources of plagiarism with software and on the web. If you plagiarize a paper you will receive a zero on that piece of work, and you will be subject to prosecution under the UNC Honor Code. It is your responsibility to familiarize yourself with the Honor Code (instrument.unc.edu).

5. Cheating: In case of cheating, you will flunk the exam. We will also report delinquents to either the UNC Honor Court or the Duke Dean of Academic Affairs. Students may not bring any material related to the course to the final examination unless it is contained in a closed book bag or knapsack. It is your responsibility to be familiar with, and act according to, the universities’ honor codes.

6. Finally - Electronics: Please turn off all other electronic devices including, but not limited to, iPhones, IPads or any other devices that ring, buzz or ding during class.

THE INSTRUCTOR DR. KAREN HAGEMANN is James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on Modern German, European and Transatlantic history and combines gender history, political, social and cultural history and the history of military and war. Her most recent books include the monograph Revisiting Prussia’s Wars against Napoleon: History, Culture, Memory (2015); and the edited volumes Gender and the Long Postwar: The United States and the Two Germanys, 1945-1989 (with Sonya Michel, 2014); Children, Families and States: Time Policies of Child Care, Preschool and Primary Schooling in Europe (with Konrad H. Jarausch and

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Cristina Allemann-Ghionda, 2011); Gender, War, and Politics: Transatlantic Perspectives, 1775–1830 (with Gisela Mettele und Jane Rendall, 2010); and Civil Society and Gender Justice: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (with Sonya Michel and Gunilla Budde, 2008). In the fall 2020 the Oxford Handbook of Gender, War and the Western World since 1600 was published, which she edited together with Stefan Dudink and Sonya O Rose. Currently she is working work on a monograph titled Forgotten Soldiers: Women, the Military and War in European History, 1600-2000