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This course examines the rise of Nazism in Germany and the responses of Germans to it, including complicity and resistance. Beginning in 1919, the course traces the fortunes of the NSDAP during the Weimar Republic, explains their seizure of power in 1933 and their domestic and foreign policy up until the Second World War, concluding with an examination of the genocidal war they waged between 1939 and 1945.
This course examines resistance and collaboration in Germany and Europe under the Nazis. It begins by considering the extent of conformity and consent within Germany and the possibilities for resistance against National Socialism by Germans between 1933 and 1945 by concentrating on four social groups: workers, young people, Christians and conservatives. The course then examines collaboration and resistance in Nazi occupied Europe, where case studies of nations in both Eastern and Western Europe will illustrate the vast range of responses to Nazi rule. In the final sections of the course emphasis will be given to Jewish resistance and the aftermath of Nazi occupation, that is, the retribution taken on collaborators and the way in which narratives about resistance, consent and collaboration have helped shape post-war politics and national identities.The key questions to be addressed during this course include: How do we define resistance, conformity and collaboration in the context of Nazi Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe? What reasons did people in Nazi-occupied Europe have for either resistance or collaboration? How were their opportunities for resistance or collaboration shaped or curtailed by Nazi political, economic and racial policy? How did Nazi occupation effect the long-term development of Europe after World War Two?
This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:
Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award
Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.
Any 30 points at 200 level from HIST, orany 60 points at 200 level from the Schedule V of the BA.
HIST281
Students must attend one activity from each section.
Heather Wolffram
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Domestic fee $1,641.00
International fee $7,500.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
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