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Understanding Nazi Germany: Origins, Structures, Explanations - EURO2331
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
 
 
School:  School of History and Philosophy
 
 
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: 36 units of credit
 
 
Equivalent: HIST2422, HIST3101
 
 
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.

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