History of 20th Century Germany

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Examines the tumultuous history of Germany from 1914 to the unification of the two Germanys in 1989-1990. From the totalizing and traumatic experience of World War I, through a failed revolution, the republican experiment of Weimar, the National Socialist dictatorship under Hitler and the divided Germany suspended between the superpowers, to the newly unified democratic Federal Republic. Examines the ways in which Germans have tried to reconcile the state to their society, economy, and individual lives. It illuminates ethical questions of war and peace, racism and genocide, social justice and social welfare, gender and sexual identity; it brings a global counterpoint that helps erode the baleful myth of American exceptionalism; and it provides a model of public accommodation to a traumatic and destructive historical episode that contrasts with public debate about coming to grips with the past of the United States. Counts as a CAS Global & Cultural Diversity course. Counts as a Human Diversity & Commonality course. Counts as a Moral & Ethical Reasoning course. Counts as a Understanding Global Perspectives course.