UNSW Handbook Course - Understanding Nazi Germany: Origins, Structures, Explanations

Understanding Nazi Germany: Origins, Structures, Explanations - HIST3101


	Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
	School: School of History
	Contact: Minnerup,Guenter
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: 36 units of credit and 12 units of credit at the HIST2000 level; Excluded: HIST2422, EURO2331
	Session Offered: See Class Timetable
	Fee Band: 1 (more info)

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.

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