Understanding Nazi Germany: Origins, Structures, Explanations - HIST3101

   
   
 
Course Outline: See below
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: 12 units of credit at the HIST2000 level;
 
 
Equivalent: EURO2331, HIST2422
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description


Explores debates over the origins and role of Nazi Germany. Issues will include its roots in German history; the driving force of the regime; Hitler's role and Nazi Germany's war aims. Sixty years after its defeat in World War II, Nazi Germany continues to fascinate and to leave questions hotly debated by historians. Discusses whether the Nazis were modernisers or backward-looking romantics, and why there was so little opposition. Considers Nazi Germany's war aims and if the Holocaust was the inevitable outcome of Nazi ideology or a bureaucratic response to impending defeat. These issues will be explored in lectures and student-led seminar discussions of primary and secondary texts.


Learning Outcomes


At the end of the course, students who seriously engage with the material presented in classes and readings will have a throrough understanding of the main explanations put forward by historians and social scientists of the phenomenon of German fascism and the controversies between them.

Assessment


  • Research essay (3000 words) - 50%
  • Tutorial paper (1500 words) - 20%
  • Class test - 20%
  • Tutorial participation - 10%