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World War Two
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Hitler
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Key Questions
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- What were the causes of World War
II?
- In what ways was World War II an
example of the attitudes of European imperialism unleashed on the
European continent (nationalism, social Darwinism, colonization,
superiority complexes, and ideological struggles)?
- What were the repercussions of
World War II towards the outlook of European philosophers?
- Can World War I and World War II be
considered one great war
over the 'soul' of Europe?
- To what degree are the inherent
contradictions of the Western tradition exemplified by the conflicting
ideologies of the Nazis (nature) and Soviets (nurture)?
- Based on understanding the
literature, propaganda, history and culture of Germany, why/how did the
Holocaust happen? Why do you think German men and women
participated?
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Stalin
Churchill
German
Youth Magazine
Der Plimpf
(1943)
Lanzinger, "The Standard
Bearer"
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Primary Sources:
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Primary Sources:
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Primary Sources:
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Primary Sources:
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- Munich Conference Agreement.
(1938)
- Chamberlain, "Peace in Our Time",
(1938); On Appeasement
(1939)
- Hitler,
Speech to Military Commanders
(August 22, 1939)
- Churchill, "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat",
(1940); To the House of Commons,
(18 June 1940)
- FDR, The
Four Freedoms (1941)
- Molotov: Broadcast Speech on the
Invasion of The Soviet Union, (1941)
- Stalin, Speech
(July 3, 1941) "Call
to Arms"
- Grossman, "In the Main Line of Attack"
a report from Stalingrad (1942)
- Dragan, "A Soviet Veteran Recalls"
(1942)
- Kozhina, The Great Fatherland War
(1942)
- The Einsatzgruppen
Case
- The
Wannsee
Protocol (January 1942) (at Hanover) (at
History Guide)
- Biology Text for German
Middle Schoolers
(1942)
- Himmler, Speech to SS Group Leaders at
Posen, (1943) (at Hanover)
- Statistical
Report on the “Final Solution,” known as the
Korherr Report
(March 23, 1943)
- Goebbels, "Total War"
"Do You Want Total War?"
(1943)
- Hoess, Commandant of Auschwitz (1946)
(Perry) (complete text)
- Grass, "How I Spent the War"
(2007)
- Truman, Diary, July 25, 1945
on the decision to drop the bomb
Franz
Neumann, Behemoth.
The Structure and Practice of National Socialism
1942
Hayek The Road to Serfdom
1944
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- Chaplin, The Great Dictator
(1940)
- Brecht, "How Fortunate the Man with
None" from Mother Courage and Her
Children (1941)
- Grossman, "In the War"; "Under Siege"
(1942)
- Milosz, "A Poor Christian Looks at the
Ghetto" (1943)
- Pyle, "Captain Waskow's Men Say Good-Bye"
(1944)
- Eisenstein, Ivan the Terrible Part 1
(1944) (complete film)
- Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank
(1947)
- Eliach, "Jew, Go Back to the Grave!
- Levi, "The Drowned and the Saved"
from Survival in Auschwitz (1950)
- Weiss, "Canto Nine: The Bunker Block"
from The Investigation (1965)
- Jarrell, "The Death of the Ball Turret
Gunner" (1969)
- Auden, "The Shield of Achilles"
(1955); (Book 18 of The Iliad
(Johnson trans.); Rundell
, The Shield of Achilles (1821)
- Hersey, Hiroshima (1963)
(excerpts)
- Evelyn Waugh, Sword of
Honor (1965)
- Olivia Manning, Balkan
Trilogy (1960-1965); Levant Trilogy
(1977-1980)
- Anthony Powell, A Dance
to the Music of Time: Third Movement (1964-1968)
- James J. Fahey's Pacific
War Diary (1963)
- Douglas Alamein to Zem Zem
(1946)
- John Guest, Broken Images
(1949)
- Neil McCallum, Journey
With a Pistol (1959)
- Eugene Sledge With the
Old Breed: At Peleliu
and Okinawa (1981) (Sledge Collection at Auburn U.)
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"Forward
to the West!" (1942)
Deineka, The River (1944)
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Secondary Sources:
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- Fussell, "The Real War, 1939-1945",
The Atlantic (1989)
- Rosenbaum, “Explaining
Hitler,” The New Yorker, (1995)
- Applebaum , "The
Worst of the Madness" NYRB, 11-11-10
- Snyder, "Who
Killed More: Hitler or Stalin?" NYRB 3-10-11
- Urquhart, "How
Great Was Churchill" NYRB 8-19-10
- Dyson, "Rocket
Man" on Werner von Braun NYRB 2008
- Nazi
Propaganda 1933-45
- Destruction
of European Jewry Explanatory Timeline
- Operation Barbarossa
Multimedia Map
- Ignatieff, The Danger of A World Without
Enemies: Lemkin's Word (2001)
- Adorno and Horkheimer,
"The Culture Industry:
Enlightenment as Mass Deception "(1944)
- Nuremburg Trials (1945-49)
- Lone Sentry
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SS Einsatzgruppe ("task force")
murdering Jewish civilians in the Ukraine, 1942.
Rockwell, Save Freedom of Speech; Buy
War Bonds. 1943
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