From Berlin Bohemia to Hitler: The Weimar Republic's Crisis Democracy & the Emergence of German Fascism

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Week 15: May 5, 2005

The Bitter End:

From Schleicher to Hitler

The 1932-1933

[Assigned Reading from Weimar Republic Sourcebook]

A New Democracy in Crisis

I. The Legacy of the War

12. Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, Why War? (1933) [pp. 25-34]

III. Economic Upheaval: Rationalization, Inflation, and Depression

32. Heinrich Hauser, The Unemployed (1933) [pp. 84-85]

Pressure Points of Social Life

VIII. The Rise of the New Woman

84. Alice Rühle-Gerstel, Back to the Good Old Days? (1933) [p. 218-219]

The Challenge of Modernity

XVI. Berlin and the Countryside

165. Martin Heidegger, Creative Landscape: Why Do We Stay in the Provinces? (1933)[p. 426-428]

 

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Supplemental Readings [photocopies supplied by instructor]

A. John Willett, Art & Politics in the Weimar Period: The New Sobriety, 1917-1933, Chronology, 1933, pp. 258-259.

B. Ian Kershaw, Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris, Chapter 10: Levered into Power, pp. 377-427.