WEEK 5: Why did democracy collapse in Weimar Germany?

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TUESDAY (10/2)
IN CLASS:

The Rise and Fall of the Weimar Republic (Lawson and Rodden)

THURSDAY (10/4)
IN CLASS:

Class Debate: Why Hitler?

READINGS FOR WEEK 5
  • Ursula Hoffman-Lange, "Germany: Twentieth Century Turning Points," in Mattei Dogan and John Higley, eds., Elites, Crises, and the Origins of Regimes: 170-174.

  • Richard Overy, The Historical Atlas of the Third Reich: 8-21.

  • M. Ranier Lepsius, "From Fragmented Party Democracy to Government by Emergency Degree and National Socialist Takeover: Germany," in Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan, eds., The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes: Europe: 34-79.

  • Seymour Martin Lipset, "'Fascism'- Left, Right, and Center," in Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics: 127-152.

  • Henry Ashby Turner, Hitler's Thirty Days to Power: January 1933: 1-2, 163-183.

  • A. J. P. Taylor, "History Unfolds, 1918-1933," in John L. Snell, ed., The Nazi Revolution: Germany's Guilt or Germany's Fate?: 19-26.

 

Top: The new dome of the Bundestag in Berlin, Germany.

Bottom: Various scenes from a Nazi rally in Nuremburg, Germnay.

Top(left): Adolf Hitler; (Right)Field Marshall von Hindenburg.

   

 

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