The History of Nazi Germany

Catalog description

This course will allow students to examine the development and functioning of Nazism, a political and social system which invites attention because of its sheer brutality as well as its singular history. Through class discussions and readings, students will learn how Nazism took power in Germany, one of the most advanced nations in the world, and how it then carried out a radical program of social control and racial war at home and abroad. In addition, students will examine how contemporary Germany deals with its troublesome Nazi past.