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HIST209 Germany 1866 - 1945

10 cp
Prerequisites 10 cp from 100-level units in History
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for twelve weeks or equivalent of lectures and seminars.

This unit will trace the history of Germany commencing with the ascendancy of Prussia in the German Confederation and the subsequent unification of Germany under Bismarck in 1871. It will then focus on the domestic and foreign policies of Imperial Germany including its war aims during the Great War. It then examines Germanys attempt to establish a Republic after the defeat of 1918. The dictatorship of Adolf Hitler will then be examined. Attention will be focused on the various historiographical debates concerning Nazi Germany including the more recent ones concerning the Holocaust.

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