Hitler and History

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This course will offer an in-depth examination of the Nazi leader’s role in German and European history, and it will pay particularly close attention to the manifold ways in which historians have interpreted the phenomenon of Hitler since the 1920s. We will read biographies and scholarly studies of Hitler, the man, but we will also look at different representations of the Nazi leader to understand the “Hitler myth” in its various facets. Students will gain a deep understanding of the history of the Weimar Republic and Third Reich, and they will learn to think critically about the role of the individual in history.