HIST 312 - Seminar on Nazism and the Third Reich

FDR: HU
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter 2012 and alternate years

Prerequisite: HIST 214 or 224 or equivalent, or consent of the instructor. Common readings introduce students to some of the most lively debates among scholars about the causes of the failure of democracy in the Weimar Republic, the mentality of Nazi leaders and followers, the nature of the regime created by the Nazis in 1933, the impact of the Third Reich on the position of women in German society, and the degree to which the German people supported this regime’s policies of war and racial persecution. Students develop a research topic related to one of these debates for analysis in a substantial research paper utilizing both primary and secondary sources. Patch.