Student Research on 20th Century German History
Papers for UCSB Hist 133p Proseminar, Spring 2004
(course homepage)

This page links to 10 research papers written by students in Professor Marcuse's Proseminar on German History in the 20th Century at UC Santa Barbara during Spring Quarter 2004. For the assignment, see the course syllabus, and the 133p web publication guidelines.

See also my past attempts to publish student work in 1999 (2 papers and 2 handouts), and 2002 (6 papers and 2 projects). I am still experimenting to optimize the publishing of student research on-line.


Michael Kalish:
Friedrich Nietzsche &
Hitler's Mein Kampf
Celia Soudry:
Leni Riefenstahl: International Effects
Kyle Frabotta:
The Mindset of the Hitler Jugend
Andy Lewis:
Chaplains in Hitler's Armies
Joseph Chapel:
Denial of the Holocaust and Rape of Nanking
see also his 133c paper:
Three German films: 1951, 1981, 1998

Carlos Magaña:
Holocaust in Textbooks,
1952-1968

see also his 133c review:
Neumann, Shifting Memories, 2000

Summer Sandhoff:
French Documentary Films Night and Fog (1955), Shoah (1985)
see also her 133c review:
Berdahl on E. Germany, 1999

Kristina Graf:
Oskar Schindler:
Man and Myth

(presentation handout)

Courtney Smith:
Women in East Germany:
Overcoming Nazi Policies towards Women in Theory and Practice

1999 proseminar:
1953 uprising, 1961 Berlin Wall,
1985 Bitburg Affair
Heather Feng:
Oral Histories of Judy Meisel and Lili Schiff

2002 proseminar:
1920s newspapers, Kristallnacht, Israel, Nazi Bomb, Roma, 7th Day Adventists, 2nd grade Holoc. unit,
Anne Frank inTeaching


Any student tempted to use one of these papers for an assignment in another course or school should be aware of the serious consequences for plagiarism.
Here is what I write in my syllabi:

Plagiarism—presenting someone else's work as your own, or deliberately failing to credit or attribute the work of others on whom you draw (including materials found on the web)—is a serious academic offense, punishable by dismissal from the university.
It hurts the one who commits it most of all, by cheating them out of an education.

Offenses will be reported to the appropriate university authorities for disciplinary action.

For more information, see this UCSB page on academic dishonesty.


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