Major - The Third Reich

HIST 4817  The Third Reich

Prerequisites:

Restricted to students in an Honours program with 84 credits completed.

Antirequisites:

HIST 4815

Hours:

Three hours of seminar per week for one term.

Credits:

3

Description:

This course examines Germany during the first half of the twentieth century to determine the place of Hitler and the Third Reich in German history. The course examines the establishment and collapse of the Weimar Republic, and the rise of Nazism and selected topics include the rise of National Socialism, the Nazi ""seizure of power,"" Nazi ideology, the role of Hitler, collaboration and resistance, and the Holocaust. This is a reading intensive course.