Modern Germany, 1945 to the Present (A)

3 ch (2C 1WS) (W) · Undergraduate

Use tools from social, cultural, political, and gender history to consider everyday life during the Cold War. Analyze occupation policies, acts of domestic terrorism, surveillance tactics, and atonement for Holocaust crimes. Use historical sources to compare the lives of workers under capitalism and communism, and study connections between migration, racism, post-colonialism, and shifting notions of ‘Germanness.’ Trace events leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall and consider Germany’s place in a globalizing world.