FASCISM

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• FASCISM

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I. Rise of Fascism in Italy

• What was Fascism all about?
• Mussolini, Fascist Doctrines

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II. The Fledgling Weimar Republic

• Who opposed democracy in Germany?
• Zetkin, et al., Spartacist Manifesto
• The Kapp Putsch
• Heiden, The Ruinous Inflation (1923)
• Jünger, Antidemocratic Thought

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III. The Great Depression (1929? )

• How did the Depression affect Germany?
• Pilgrim Trust, Men Without Work
• Hauser, With Germanys Unemployed

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IV. RISE OF HITLER

• What was Hitler like as a politician?
• Hitler, Mein Kampf
• Ludecke, The Demagogic Orator
• T. Mann, An Appeal to Reason

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V. The LEADER-STATE

• What sort of State did Hitler create?
• Huber, The Authority of the Führer

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VI. THE NAZIFICATION OF CULTURE SOCIETY

• What sort of new Germany did Hitler have in
  mind?
• Hamilton, The Youth Who Arent Hitlers
  Strength
• Stark, Jewish Science vs. German Science
• Graf, Hereditary and Racial Biology for
  Students
• Lochner, Book Burning

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VII. NAZI PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS

• What was the experience of Nazi persecution like?
• Nathorff, A German Jewish Doctors Diary
• Appel, Memoirs of a German Jewish Woman

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VIII. SOCIAL DEMOCRACY IN AUSTRIA

• For a brief time, the Center-Left ruled Austria
  what was it like? What happened to it?
• Lehmann, Public Housing in Vienna
• Deutsch, Destruction of Austrian Socialism

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IX. THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR

• From 1936-1939, Spain plunged into a brutal Civil
  War. What was it like?
• Thomas, Windmills
• Frankson, Letter from an African-American
  Volunteer
• Koestler, Dialogue with Death

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X. ANGUISH OF THE INTELLECTUALS

• Some people try to make sense out of all this
  what conclusions to they reach?
• Coudenhove-Kalergi, Pan-Europe
• Ortega y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses
• Huizinga, Tomorrow
• Silone, Bread Wine
• Koestler, I was Ripe to Be Converted

• Berdyaev, Modern Ideologies
• Dawson, The Failure of Secularization