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Political Culture and Authority in Germany, 1916-1934 (Exam) | King's College London 09/30/21 6AAH3049 - Between Kaiser and Fuhrer: Political Culture and Authority in Germany, 1916-1934 (exam) | King's College London 6AAH3049 - Between Kaiser and Fuhrer: View Online Political Culture and Authority in Germany, 1916-1934 (exam) © 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), ‘“Justice in the Ruhr Region,” Caricature from Simplicissimus (May 1923) (Foreign Policy and International Relations)’ <http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=4167> ——, ‘“The Honor Guard,” Caricature from Simplicissimus (March 1923) (Foreign Policy and International Relations)’ <http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=4166> © 2012 Christian Schad Stiftung Aschaffenburg / ARS and Schad C, ‘Christian Schad, Sonja (1928) (Bodies and Sex)’ <http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=4247> © Bildarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz, ‘Walther Rathenau (c. 1920) (Politics)’ <http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=1704> ——, ‘Revolutionary Sailors and Soldiers Drive through the Brandenburg Gate (November 9, 1918) (Beginnings: War and Revolution )’ <http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=3985> ——, ‘Wilhelm II Crosses the Dutch Border and Goes into Exile (10 November 1918) ( Seeking an End to War)’ <http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=3737> ——, ‘Friedrich Ebert Delivers the Opening Speech at the First Session of the National Assembly in Weimar (February 6, 1919) ( Beginnings: War and Revolution)’ <http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=4158> ——, ‘Mass Demonstration in Front of the Reichstag against the “Brutal Peace” (15 May 1919) (Beginnings: War and Revolution)’ <http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=2150> ——, ‘The Burial of Karl Liebknecht and Other Murdered Revolutionaries (January 25, 1919) (Beginnings: War and Revolution)’ <http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=4049> ——, ‘Troops Returning from East Africa Parade through Berlin under General Lettow-Vorbeck (March 2, 1919) (Foreign Policy and International Relations)’ <http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=4162> ——, ‘Ernst Toller in Nieder-Schönfeld Prison (1919-24) (High and Low Culture)’ 1/81 09/30/21 6AAH3049 - Between Kaiser and Fuhrer: Political Culture and Authority in Germany, 1916-1934 (exam) | King's College London <http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=4263> ——, ‘The Accused in the Rathenau Trial (October 13, 1922) (The Problem of Civilization)’ <http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=4185> ——, ‘German People’s Party (DVP) Election Poster (1924) (Politics)’ <http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=4031> ——, ‘Putsch Participants in Landsberg Prison (1924) (The Rise of the Nazis)’ <http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=4285> ——, ‘Magnus Hirschfeld Archive in the Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin (1925) (Bodies and Sex)’ <http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=4242> ——, ‘In the “Eldorado” Transvestite Bar on Motzstrasse, Berlin (1926) (Bodies and Sex)’ <http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=4243> ——, ‘The Unemployed Demonstrate for the Proposed Expropriation of Princely Estates (1926) (Politics)’ <http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=4151> ——, ‘Ernst Thälmann and Willy Leow at the Head of a Red Front Fighters’ League Demonstration in Berlin (June 1927) (Politics)’ <http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=4039> ——, ‘National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP) Election Poster (1928) (Politics)’ <http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=4075> ——, ‘Women of the Red Front Fighters’ League Demonstrate against the Prohibition of Abortion (August 19, 1928) (Bodies and Sex)’ <http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=4273> ——, ‘Gustav Stresemann Converses with the German Ambassador to the Netherlands, Graf Zech (August 25, 1929) (Politics)’ <http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=4159> ——, ‘Hitler at a Camp with Karl Gruber, the Founder of the Hitler Youth [Hitler-Jugend] (August 1929) (The Rise of the Nazis)’ <http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=4288> ——, ‘Katharina von Kardorff (née v. 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Building the Nazi Regime)’ <http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=1883> ——, ‘Adolf Hitler at a Window of the Reich Chancellery (January 30, 1933) (The Destruction of the Weimar Republic)’ <http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=4368> ——, ‘Communist Party Functionaries Wanted by the German Criminal Police (1933) (Images - Building the Nazi Regime)’ <http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=1880> ——, ‘Election Propaganda on the Church Steps – the Church Elections in Berlin (July 1933) (Images - Religion)’ <http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=3773> ——, ‘Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin: “Un-German” and “Unnatural” Literature Is Sorted Out for the Book-Burning Ceremony (undated Photo, May 6-10, 1933) (Images - Gender, Family, and Generations)’ 3/81 09/30/21 6AAH3049 - Between Kaiser and Fuhrer: Political Culture and Authority in Germany, 1916-1934 (exam) | King's College London <http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=2069> ——, ‘Meeting of Catholic Youth Organizations in Berlin-Neukölln (August 20, 1933) (Images - Religion)’ <http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=2063> ——, ‘Prisoners Doing Leveling Work at the Dachau Concentration Camp (May 24, 1933) (Images - The SS and Police System)’ <http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=1917> ——, ‘Reich Conference of German Christians at the Sportpalast in Berlin (November 13, 1933) (Images - Religion)’ <http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=2059> ——, ‘SA Members Arrest Communists in Berlin on the Day after the Reichstag Elections (March 6, 1933) (Images - Building the Nazi Regime)’ <http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=1891> ——, ‘Signing of the Reich Concordat (July 20, 1933) (Images - Building the Nazi Regime)’ <http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=1894> ——, ‘The Karl Liebknecht House, Central Party Headquarters of the German Communist Party, on Bülowplatz in Berlin (January 22, 1933) (Images - Building the Nazi Regime)’ <http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=1878> ——, ‘The Organizational Structure of the NSDAP (Images - The Nazi State)’ <http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=1899> ——, ‘Appeal of the German Workers’ Front after the Dissolution of the Free Trade Unions: Then as Now, We Remain Comrades (May 2, 1933) (Images - Economy and Labor)’ <http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=2030> ——, ‘Hermann Göring, Chief of the State Secret Police Office, Names Heinrich Himmler Deputy Chief and “Inspector of the Prussian Political Police” (April 20, 1934) (Images - The SS and Police System)’ <http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=1908> ——, ‘Hitler with Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht (May 5, 1934) (Images - Economy and Labor)’ <http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_image.cfm?image_id=1964> ——, ‘Reich Minister of Justice Franz Gürtner Opens the First Session of the People’s Court (July 14, 1934) (Images - The Nazi State)’
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