From Berlin Bohemia to Hitler:
The Weimar Republic's Crisis Democracy
& the Emergence of German Fascism
Week 4: February 10, 2005
The Assassinations & The Emergence of Fascism
The 1921-1922
[Assigned Reading from Weimar Republic Sourcebook]
A New Democracy in Crisis
I. The Legacy of the War
7. Willi Wolfradt, The Stab-in-the-Back Legend? (1922) [pp. 16-18]
8. Ernst Jünger: Fire (1922) [pp. 18-20]
IV. Coming to Terms with Democracy [pp.86-87]
37. Emil Julius Gumbel, Four Years of Political Murder (1922) [pp. 100-104]
38. The German Center Party Program (1922) [pp. 104-105]
39. Thomas Mann, The German Republic (1922) [pp. 105-109]
Pressure Points of Social Life
VIII. The Rise of the New Woman
74. Manfred Georg: The Right to Abortion(1922) [p. 200-202]
X. The Jewish Community: Renewal, Redefinition, Resistance
100. Arnold Zweig: The Countenance of Eastern European Jews (1922) [p. 255-257]
101. S. Steinberg: What We Strive For (1922) [p. 257-258]
The Challenge of Modernity
XIX. From Dada to the New Objectivity: Art and Politics
192. Adolf Behne: On the 1922 Russian Art Exhibition in Berlin (1922)[p. 489-490]
Changing Configurations of Culture
XXI. Theater, Politics, and the Public Sphere
217. Herbert Jhering: The Dramatist Bert Brecht (1922) [p.534-535]
218. Hans Johst: The Drama and the National Idea (1922) [p. 535-536]
XXII. The Roaring Twenties: Cabaret and Urban Entertainment
228. Alice Gerstel: Jazz Band (1922) [p. 554-555]
The Transformation of Everyday Life
XXIX. Sexuality: Private Rights versus Social Norms
305. Guidelines of the German Association for the Protection of Mothers (1922) [p. 697-698]
Supplemental Readings [photocopies supplied by instructor]
A. A.J. Nicholls, Weimar and the Rise of Hitler, Chapter 6: Hitler & Republican Instability, pp. 71-82 & Chapter 7: Ruhr Occupation and Inflation, pp. 83-92.
B. Peter Gay, Weimar Culture, Chapter 4: The Hunger for Wholeness: Trials of Modernity, pp. 70-101 & Chapter 5: The Revolt of the Son: Expressionist Years, pp. 102-118.
C. John Willett, Art & Politics in the Weimar Period: The New Sobriety, 1917-1933, Chapter 8: The Turning Point, 1921-1923, pp. 67-94.