HIST 214 - Dictatorship and Democracy in Germany, 1914-2000

FDR: HU
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter 2015

The failure of Germany’s first attempt at democracy in the Weimar Republic, the interaction between art and politics, the mentality of the Nazis, the institutions of the Third Reich, the Second World War and Holocaust, the occupation and partition of Germany in 1945, the reasons for the success of democratic institutions in the Federal Republic, the origins of modern feminism, the economic collapse of the German Democratic Republic, and the process of national reunification in 1989-91. Patch.