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Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
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- Instructor
- Prof. David Ciarlo
- Term
- Fall 2004
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 reading · 3 other files · 4 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
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Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 21H.447 Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, Fall 2004, Prof. David Ciarlo — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Lecture 2: Imperial Germany and the First World War Discussion Fabri, Friedrich. Short excerpt from Does Germany Need Colonies?
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Lecture 3: Total War and Total (?) Defeat
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Lecture 4: Revolution and the Weimar Constitution Discussion Remarque, Jünger. “Letters from the Front and Home Front”
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Lecture 5: The Treaty of Versailles Economic Shock Paramilitary Politics
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Lecture 6: Recovery, and Weimar Culture I: Art and the Avant-Garde (Visual Presentation)
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Lecture 7: Weimar Culture II: The New Woman Discussion Berghaus, Gunter. “Girlkultur: Feminism, Americanism, and Popular Entertainment in Weimar Germany.” Journal of Design History (1988). Nenno, Nancy. “Feminity, the Primitive, and Modern Urban Space: Josephine Baker in Berlin.”
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Lecture 8: Film: The Blue Angel (Die Blaue Engel) (1930, 107 min.)
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Lecture 9: Countercurrents: Anti-Semitism, Völkisch nationalism (and the Origins of the Nazi Party)
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Lecture 10: Discussion Fallada, Hans. _Little Man, What Now?_1933.
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Lecture 11: The Great Depression and the Polarization of Politics
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Lecture 12: Discussion Allen, William S. The Nazi Seizure of Power .
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Lecture 13: The Nazi Seizure of Power and Gleichschaltung
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Lecture 14: National Socialist Propaganda and Aesthetics: The New Mass Media Film: Excerpts from Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will and Olympia Discussion The films of Leni Riefenstahl Fest, Joachim. The Face of the Third Reich . (Goebbels)
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Lecture 15: Discussion Allen. Nazi Seizure of Power.
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Lecture 16: The Racial State
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Lecture 17: The Rise of the SS State, and Everyday Life under Nazism
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Lecture 18: Outbreak of the Second World War
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Lecture 19: The Course of the War, and the Eastern Front
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Lecture 20: Origins of the “Final Solution” and the Machinery of Mass Murder Film Excerpt from Die Ewige Jüde Discussion Report of Einsatzgruppe C (1941) Minutes of the Wannsee Conference (1942)
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Lecture 21: Discussion Browning. Ordinary Men . Fest, Joachim. The Face of the Third Reich . (Höss)
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Lecture 22: Meeting with Instructor: Review of “Der Brand” (Strategic Bombing)
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Lecture 23: The Defeat of Germany and Götterdammerung Discussion Allen. The Nazi Seizure of Power . Fest, Joachim. The Face of the Third Reich .
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Lecture 24: “Zero Hour” and Denazification
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Lecture 25: Film: Germany Year Zero . (1947, 78 minutes) or Somewhere in Berlin (Irgendwo in Berlin) (1946, DEFA), 79 minutes.
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Lecture 26: Discussion of Film The Legacy of Nazism in History, Memory and Myth
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