Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Humanities and Social Science
Learning Methods
Lecture
Seminar
Module Offerings
6128HIST
Aims
To provide students with specialist knowledge of the history of Germany during the period of national socialist dictatorship, of the nature of totalitarian rule during this period, and of the prosecution of political opponents as well as ethnic and religious minorities.
To provide students with in-depth knowledge of the Holocaust, its origins, development, and implementation by Nazi Germany and her collaborators.
To provide students with a thorough understanding of historiographical debates about the Third Reich and the Holocaust.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Critically evaluate historiographical interpretations and explanations surrounding Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.
2.
Independently engage with a variety of primary sources on the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, including official documents, autobiographies, film, photography, and newspaper reports.
3.
Present coherently and efficiently in written form a historiographical argument, based on the analysis of both primary and secondary sources.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Week 1
Lecture: The Third Reich and the Historians – Debates and Controversies
Seminar: Prominent Historical Interpretations of the Third Reich
Week 2
Lecture: The Destruction of the Weimar Republic and the Rise of the Nazis
Seminar: The Final Crisis of the Weimar Republic
Week 3
Lecture: Terror and Consent: Establishing the Nazi Dictatorship
Seminar: The Early Concentration Camps
Week 4
Lecture: Building the “Volksgemeinschaft”: Economic, Social, and Cultural Policies of the Nazis
Seminar: Propaganda and Welfare
Week 5
Lecture: Resistance, Exile, and Refusal: Opposition to the Nazi Regime
Seminar: Working-Class Opposition to the Nazis
Week 6
Lecture: Nazi Foreign Policy and the Coming of the Second World War
Seminar: Economic Preparations for War and the Five Year Plan
Week 7
Reading Week
Week 8
Lecture: Antisemitism and Nazi Ideology
Seminar: Ideological Roots of Nazi Antisemitism
Week 9
Lecture: Exclusion and Prosecution: Anti-Jewish Policies before 1939
Seminar: Nuremberg Race Laws and other anti-Jewish legislation
Week 10
Lecture: Holocaust by Bullets, 1939-1942
Seminar: Collaborators, Bystanders, and the Holocaust
Week 11
Lecture: Industrial Mass Murder, 1942-1945
Seminar: Primo Levi’s testimony of survival in Auschwitz
Week 12
Lecture: Aftermaths of the Third Reich and the Holocaust
Seminar: How Democracies are destroyed.
Additional Information:This module will allow students to engage in-depth with current debates around the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. It draws on the most recent research and offers the opportunity gain a deeper understanding of this important aspect of modern European history.