The Weimar Republic and The Rise of Nazism

Backgrounds:

from Tacitus' Germania (excerpts) (Medieval Sourcebook)

Review: German Idealism

• Kant
• Hegel
• Herder
• Fichte: The People and the Fatherland (1807-1808)
• German Romanticism

From Napoleon to the Revolutions of 1848

• Napoleonic Wars
• Maps
• The Congress of Vienna (1815)
• Prince Metternich and the New Social Order:  1815-1848
• Reform, Liberation and Romanticism in Prussia
• The Constitutional Conflict in Prussia
• "Revolution and Reaction:  1848"

Bismarck and the Unification of Germany

• Blood and Iron: Bismarck and Realpolitik
• The Second Reich (overview)
• Second Reich Timeline
• The Process of German Unification
• Great Power Politics
• Bismarck and German Nationalism
• "The Prussian Wars of Unification" - lecture from MIT

Unification Documents

• "The great questions of our day cannot be solved by speeches and majority votes... but by iron and blood." (Bismarck, 1862)
• WEB German Text Archive: Kaiserreich [At H-Net]
• WEB German Law Archive [At Oxford]
  Texts on German constitutional and statute law in English translation.
• Documents of German Unification, 1848-1871 [At this Site]
  • Johann Gustav Droysen: Speech to the Frankfurt Assembly, 1848
  • Friedrich Wilhelm IV, King of Prussia: Proclamation of 1849
  • Otto von Bismarck: Letter to Minister von Manteuffel, 1856
  • Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke: 1866
  • Otto von Bismarck: 1866
  • The Imperial Proclamation, January 18, 1871
• Max Schneckenburger: The Watch on The Rhine, 1870 [At this Site]
• Ernst Moritz Arndt: The German Fatherland [At this Site]
• A War Correspondent in the Franco-Prussian War, 1870 [At this Site]
• Otto von Bismarck (1819-1898): Memoirs, excerpts [At Hanover]
• Otto von Bismarck (1819-1898): Speech on the Polish Question, to the Lower House of the Prussian Parliament, January 28, 1886 [At H-Net]
• George Makepeace Towle: Bismarck in the Reichstag and at Home, 1880 [At this Site]
• Maurice Leudet: A Day with Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1898 [At this Site]
• Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick: Student Life at the German Universities, 1900 [At this Site]

The Culture of Late Nineteenth Century Imperial Germany user name: pb20s password: nov1118

• Imperial Germany: The Second Reich
• German Unification
• Nationalism and Militarism
• German Kultur and Zivilisation
• The Second Industrial Revolution
• The German Working Class and the Social Democratic Party
• Heinrich von Treitschke, Politics, 
• Helmuth von Moltke, the Elder "On the Nature of War"
• General Friedrich von Bernhardi, The Next War.

War and Revolution (user name pb20s  password  nov1118)

· The German Experience of World War One

• Thomas Mann, "Reflections of a Non-Political Man" (1914)
• Anti-War Art
• Rosa Luxemborg, "The War and its Workers" -- The Junius Pamphlet (1916)
• The Spartacist Revolt-- Berlin, January 1919
• Right-Wing Terrorism, Economic Instability, and the Continuing Weakness of the Weimar Republic

• The Legacy of Versailles
• The Weimar Republic I: (Economic and Political Problems)
• Origins of the Nazi Party
• Beer Hall Putsch
• The 25 Points (1920)

The Experience of the Modern user name: pb20s password: nov1118

• Kurt Tucholsky, “Berlin and the Provinces” (1928)
• German Visions of America
• Hermann Hesse, "The Longing of Our Time for a Worldview" (1926)
• Hans Ostwald, A Moral History of the Inflation (1932)
• Elsa Herrmann, “This is the New Woman” (1929)
• The Rejection of the New Woman
• Sandra Gilber on Men, Women, and the Great War
• Dada Collage
• Die Neue Sachlichkeit (The New Realism)

Historical Backgrounds:

• The Weimar Republic II: (Foreign Policy Problems)
• The Good Years of Weimar III

The Bauhaus, Brecht, and the German Left user name: pb20s password: nov1118

• The Challenge of Design in the Industrial Era
• Walter Gropius, Peter Behrens and The Origins of the Bauhaus
• The Vision of the Bauhaus
• Buildings  of the Bauhaus
• Bauhaus Design
• Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera)
• Art of the Political Left

Historical Backgrounds

• Cultural Life in the Weimar Republic V

The German Left, Metropolis, and the Triumph of the Right user name: pb20s password: nov1118

• The Collapse of the Economy
• The Appeal of the Communist Apocalypse
• Nazi Views on Gender and Family
• Does the Five O’Clock Tea Suit Our Time?

Historical Backgrounds

• Collapse of the Weimar Republic IV
• The Great Depression and the Nazis
• Nazi Paramilitary Groups: SA and SS
• The Nazi Seizure of Power