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HIS 455-H001 History of the German Lands in the 19Th and 20Th Centuries HIS 455-H001 History of the German Lands in the 19th and 20th Centuries University of Southern Mississippi, Spring 2009 M-W-F 12:00-12:50, LAB 102 Professor Jeff Bowersox Email: [email protected] Office: LAB 454 (601-266-4519) Office Hours: M-W 10:30-12:00 or by appointment Course introduction: This course focuses on the development of the German lands over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We will engage with a variety of topics, including nationalism and nation-building, revolution and reaction, industrialization and urbanization, changing gender roles and social structures, empire at home and abroad, mass politics and culture, Germans' roles and experiences in two world wars, Nazi racism and genocide, and division and unification in the Cold War world. The common threads running throughout will be Germans' persistent experimentation with defining "Germany" and the consequences for those variously included and excluded according to gender, class, religion, race, and ethnicity. Course objectives Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to Discuss with sophistication the major themes of modern German history Critically analyze primary and secondary sources Propose, organize, and construct an extended research essay that draws on both primary and secondary sources 1 Course Materials: Roth, Joseph. What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933. Trans. Michael Hofmann. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2004. Smith, Helmut Walser. The Butcher’s Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003. Tipton, Frank B. A History of Modern Germany since 1815. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Selected readings from German History in Documents and Images (GHDI): http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/home.cfm. All course materials are available from the Barnes & Noble on campus., but feel free to search out used copies from such sites as www.addallbooks.com, www.half.com, www.choosebooks.com, www.alibris.com, www.abebooks.com, and www.amazon.com. Assessment: Participation 15% The Butcher’s Tale analysis (4 pages, due 16 Feb.) 15% Midterm exam (45 minutes, 6 Mar.) 10% Research essay (10 pages, due 8 Apr.) 35% Final exam (7:00-9:30 pm, 6 May) 25% Total 100% Course outline: 1. Mon., 12 January Introduction to course themes and expectations 2. Wed., 14 January The state of the German lands in 1815 Tipton, 1-24 Ernst Moritz Arndt, “The German‟s Fatherland” (1813) [GHDI: Vol. 3 Sec. 1 No. 1] Preface to the Second Edition of the Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (1819) [GHDI: Vol. 3 Sec. 12 No. 1] 3. Fri., 16 January The Sattelzeit Tipton, 25-48 Ernst Dronke, Excerpts from Berlin (1846) [GHDI: Vol. 3 Sec. 8 No. 1] Mon., 19 January Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2 NO CLASS 4. Wed., 21 January Politics in the “pre-March” era Tipton, 49-58 Clemens Prince von Metternich to Friedrich Gentz (1819) [GHDI: Vol. 3 Sec. 2 No. 1] Johann August Wirth at the Hambach Festival (1832) [GHDI Vol. 3 Sec. 1 No. 6] 5. Fri., 23 January The 1848 revolutions: Success or failure? Tipton: 59-60, 66-89, 100-111 Carl Schurz on why he became a supporter of the Republican Form of Government during the Revolution of 1848 (1913) [GHDI: Vol. 3 Sec. 2 No. 6] Women's Activism in the Revolution of 1848/49: Statutes of the Viennese Democratic Women's Association (1848); Report on their Activities (1850); Petition to the Austrian Constituent Assembly (October 16, 1848) [GHDI: Vol. 3 Sec. 7 No. 5] Mon., 26 January: Last day to drop classes and receive 100% financial refund 6. Mon., 26 January Crisis in Prussia and the rise of Bismarck Tipton, 90-93, 111-120 7. Wed., 28 January Crises in Austria 8. Fri., 30 January Industrialization Tipton, 61-66, 94-99 Railway Construction (1850-1873) [GHDI: Vol. Vol. 4 Sec. 1 No. 7] The Economic and Social Significance of Gas Motors (1870s) [GHDI: Vol. 4 Sec. 1 No. 11] 9. Mon., 2 February Showdown in Central Europe Tipton, 120-128 Excerpts from Bismarck‟s “Blood and Iron” Speech (1862) [GHDI: Vol. 3 Sec. 1 No. 13] 10. Wed., 4 February Bismarck‟s state Tipton, 129-144, 156-170 August Bebel, Reichstag Speech of November 8, 1871 [GHDI: Vol. 4 Sec. 5 No. 26] 3 Association of German Catholics, Founding Manifesto (July 8, 1972) [GHDI: Vol. 4 Sec. 7 No. 5] Bismarck‟s Speech to the Prussian House of Delegates on the “Polish Question” (1886) [GHDI: Vol. 4 Sec. 7 No. 7] 11. Fri., 6 February Dualism in Austria-Hungary 12. Mon., 9 February From Bismarck to Wilhelm II: Domestic affairs Tipton, 144-155 Start reading The Butcher’s Tale Socialist “Revisionism”: The Immediate Task of Social Democracy (1899) [GHDI: Vol. 5 Sec. 5 No. 14] Socialist “Radicalism”: Rosa Luxemburg‟s “Social Reform or Revolution” (1899) [GHDI: Vol. 5 Sec. 5 No. 15] Caligula: A Study in Roman Imperial Insanity by Ludwig Quidde (1894) [GHDI: Vol. 5 Sec. 5 No. 6] 13. Wed., 11 February From Bismarck to Wilhelm II: Foreign affairs Tipton, 170-179, 223-248 Continue reading The Butcher’s Tale Friedrich Fabri, Does Germany Need Colonies? (1879) [GHDI: Vol. 4 Sec. 6 No. 17] Wilhelm II, “Hun Speech” (1900) [GHDI: Vol. 5 Sec. 5 No. 3] 14. Fri., 13 February Jewish life in Central Europe Continue reading The Butcher’s Tale Memorandum from the Ministry of State of the Duchy of Nassau (1822) [GHDI: Vol. 3 Sec. 3 No.2 ] A Jewish Child‟s Memories of His Family‟s “Conversion” from Orthodox to Reform Practice (1880s) [GHDI: Vol. 4 Sec. 4 No. 6] 15. Mon., 16 February Butcher’s Tale essay due Discussion of The Butcher’s Tale 16. Wed., 18 February Fin-de-siècle: The promises of “modernity” Tipton, 180-193 Telephones and Electric Light (c. 1890) [GHDI: Vol. 4 Sec. 1 No. 9] The “Atom” Vacuum Cleaner: Advertisement by the Firm L.F. Nissen (1906) [GHDI: Vol. 5 Sec. 1 No. 13] Consumerism: Berlin Department Stores (1908) [GHDI: Vol. 5 Sec. 2 No. 17] 17. Fri., 20 February 4 Fin-de-siècle: The perils of “modernity” Tipton, 193-222 Working Class Life (1891) [GHDI: Vol. 5 Sec. 2 No. 9] Dwelling and Domesticity (1899) [GHDI: Vol. 5 Sec. 2 No. 2] Mon., 23 February Mardi Gras NO CLASS 18. Wed., 25 February Reforming empire in Austria-Hungary 19. Fri., 27 February World War I: The war front Tipton, 249-293 Soldiers Describe Combat II: Sophus Lange [GHDI: Vol. 5 Sec. 7 No. 4] Erich von Falkenhayn‟s “Christmas Memorandum” (December 1915) [GHDI: Vol. 5 Sec. 7 No. 9] 20. Mon., 2 March World War I: The home front Tipton, 293-322 Rationing in Practice: Queuing for Food (October 1917) [GHDI: Vol. 5 Sec. 9 No. 5] Dancing the Polonaise (1916) [GHDI: Vol. 5 Sec. 9 No. 6] 21. Wed., 4 March Defeat, disillusion, and dissolution Roth, 11-50 The First German Note to President Woodrow Wilson (October 1918) [GHDI: Vol. 5 Sec. 10 No. 9] 22. Fri., 6 March MIDTERM EXAM 23. Mon., 9 March Crisis and stabilization in Germany Tipton, 323-340, 370-391 Roth, 52-82 24. Wed., 11 March Crisis and more crisis in Austria Roth, 85-128 25. Fri., 13 March Research proposal due Discussion of Roth: Tempo and the “Golden „20s” Tipton, 340-369 Roth, 130-175 5 16-20 March Spring Break NO CLASSES 26. Mon., 23 March The National Socialist movement Tipton, 410-419 27. Wed., 25 March The decline and fall of Weimar Tipton, 391-410 Roth, 179-217 28. Fri., 27 March The racial state Tipton, 420-456 The Reich Citizenship Law (September 15, 1935) and the First Regulation to the Reich Citizenship Law (November 14, 1935) [GHDI: Vol. 7 Sec. 5 No. 5] American Consul Samuel Honaker's Description of Anti-Semitic Persecution and Kristallnacht and its Aftereffects in the Stuttgart Region (November 12 and November 15, 1938) [GHDI: Vol. 7 Sec. 5 No. 6] 29. Mon., 30 March The radical right in Austria and the Anschluss 30. Wed., 1 April World War II: The war experience Tipton, 457-486 Directives for the Treatment of Political Commissars ("Commissar Order") (June 6, 1941) [GHDI: Vol. 7 Sec. 6 No. 12] Excerpt from Goebbels‟s Speech at the Sports Palace in Berlin (February 18, 1943) [GHDI: Vol. 7 Sec. 11 No. 5] 31. Fri., 3 April World War II: The Holocaust Tipton, 486-495 Major General Bruns‟s Description of the Execution of Jews outside Riga on December 1, 1941, Surreptitiously Taped Conversation (April 25, 1945) [GHDI: Vol. 7 Sec. 5 No. 13] The Wannsee Protocol (January 20, 1942) [GHDI: Vol. 7 Sec. 5 No. 14] 32. Mon., 6 April Dividing the Germanies Tipton, 496-507 Stuttgart Speech ("Speech of Hope") by James F. Byrnes, United States Secretary of State (September 6, 1946) [GHDI: Vol. 8 Sec. 1 No. 9] 6 Announcement of the Impending Establishment of the German Democratic Republic (October 7, 1949) [GHDI: Vol. 8 Sec. 4 No. 9] 33. Wed., 8 April Research essay due “Coming to terms with the past” Tipton, 547-557, 600-613 Control Council Directive No. 38 (October 12, 1946) [GHDI: Vol. 8 Sec. 2 No. 2] The Editor-in-Chief of Die Zeit on the Nuremberg Trials (January 22, 1948) and the American Response (February 12, 1948) [GHDI: Vol. 9 Sec. 2 No. 3] Fri., 10 April Good Friday NO CLASS 34. Mon., 13 April Wirtschaftswunder in the West and surveillance state in the East Tipton, 507-539, 545-547 The Five-Year Plan for 1951-1955 (1950) [GHDI: Vol.
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