PVP 3 - The History of National Socialism II: The Third Reich in Power 1933-1939 - AHS788298
Title: PVP 3 - The History of National Socialism II: The Third Reich in Power 1933-1939
Guaranteed by: Institute of History (21-UH)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2025
Semester: winter
Points: 0
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: not taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Dr. PD Norman Domeier
Class: A – Mezioborová nabídka VP: Historické vědy
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Annotation
In this seminar we are going to tackle the question how the National Socialists managed to build up the “Third Reich” after seizing power in Germany in January 1933. We will explore how they transformed (or tried to transform) state, society, economy, culture and even religion. Based on research literature, primary source material and with Hitler’s two main goals in mind -world conquest and murdering all Jews and “inferior” races- we will critically analyse the national and indeed international rise of National Socialism between 1933 and the outbreak of the Second World War in Europe in September 1939.

Winter 2024/25 PD Dr. Norman Domeier

Seminar The History of National Socialism: The Third Reich in Power (1933-1939)

Email: Norman.Domeier@ff.cuni.cz

Time Thursday, 15:50-17:25

Location C335 (Celetná 20)

Starting 3 October 2024

Moodle tba
Last update: Štolleová Barbora, PhDr., Ph.D. (15.09.2024)
Course completion requirements

Credit Points: 3 without essay / 6 with essay

 

Accomplishments: Regular and active participation; presentation (5-10 minutes);

         essay (5 pages in English)

Last update: Štolleová Barbora, PhDr., Ph.D. (15.09.2024)
Literature

Literature      

- Richard J. Evans, The Third Reich in Power, London 2005.

- Ian Kershaw, Hitler. 1936-1945: Nemesis, London 1980.

- Thomas Weber, Becoming Hitler. The Making of a Nazi, New York 2017.

- Brendan Simms, Hitler. Only the World Was Enough, London 2019.

Last update: Štolleová Barbora, PhDr., Ph.D. (15.09.2024)
Syllabus

Syllabus/Structure

 

1. (3 October) Introduction, Organisation, Presentation

 

2. (10 October) The Final Establishment of Dictatorship: „The Night of the Long Knives“

 

3. (17 October) Instruments of Terror

 

4. (24 October) Enlightening the People: Propaganda

 

5. (31 Oktober) A Generational Conquest: Winning over the Young

 

6. (7 November) The Racial State 1: The „Jewish Question“ in Europe

 

7. (14 November) The Racial State 2: „The Night of Broken Glass“

 

8. (21 November) Creating „Greater Germany“: The „Anschluss“ of Austria

 

9. (28 November) „Fallen Bastions“: The Conquest of Czechia

 

10. (5 December) March Into the East: The Attack on Poland

 

11. (12 December) Conclusion

 

12. (19 December) Discussion of essay topics

 

Last update: Štolleová Barbora, PhDr., Ph.D. (15.09.2024)