PVP 3 - History of National Socialism - AHSV20415

• Title: PVP 3 - History of National Socialism
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Economic and Social History (21-UHSD)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2019
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Dr. phil. doc. Boris Barth, M.A.
• Class: Exchange - 08.3 History

Annotation

Last update: PhDr. Kryštof Drnek, Ph.D. (30.12.2018)

During the last decades National Socialism has become one of the best researched, but still
highly controversial historical topics. As a complete presentation of all aspects is impossible,
this course will focus on specific and selected issues (see list below). It will concentrate on the
form of the state (the so called polycratic chaos), as functionalists have described it, the
emergence of a murderous racial state, the war of annihilation in the East, and the long and
difficult German attempts to come to terms with the past. Knowledge of the German language
is welcome but not necessary.

Course completion requirements

Last update: PhDr. Kryštof Drnek, Ph.D. (30.12.2018)

2 Credits - presentation plus active participation

4 Credits - presentation, active participation, term paper (12.000 to 15.000 characters)

Literature

Last update: PhDr. Kryštof Drnek, Ph.D. (30.12.2018)

As introduction: Richard Evans, The third Reich,

Further literature will be given during the course.

Syllabus

Last update: PhDr. Kryštof Drnek, Ph.D. (30.12.2018)

• Introduction, program, presentations

• Structure of the Weimar republic, the rise of the NSDAP

• The so-called “Machtergreifung”, the establishment of the dictatorship

• The polycratic structure of the state, the emergence of a racial state, the Hitler-Myth

• National-socialist foreign policy (until 1938)

• Poliltics of autarky and re-armament programs (Adam Tooth and the Tim Mason-

controversy)

• The war in Europe 1939-41 and the occupation policy (case studies)

• “Fall Barbarossa” - the war against the Soviet Union

• The Shoah: The “realization of the racial utopia” (Hans Mommsen)

• The end of the “Third Reich”

• Coming to terms with the past - the German example

• Final debate, conclusion,