Announcements

• Dec. 7, 2003: This course will be taught again in Winter 2004. It is currently full (40 students). If you want to be on a waiting list, e-mail me (marcuse@history.ucsb.edu).
  I will be starting a new web page (and archiving this one) soon.
  The readings (see also below: materials) will be:
  Mary Fulbrook, Divided Nation, ISBN: 0195075714
  Heinrich Boll, Billiards at Half-Past Nine, isbn 0140187243
  Peter Schneider, Wall Jumper, isbn 0226739414
  Bernhard Schlink, The Reader, ISBN: 0375707972
  
• Final exam study guide now available! Exam on Wednesday, 3/22, noon-2pm.
• Announcements regarding the final exam:
  If there are any questions relevant to the whole class, I will post them as announcements on this site on Tuesday, 3/21, before 5pm, or at the very latest on Wednesday morning, at 10am.
• Tuesday, 3/21, noon, answers to questions regarding exam:
  Typo: my spell check turned Honecker into "Honker" in essay 2. Sorry.
  You will be given two of the essay questions on the final, to choose one.
  "Middle term sweep" in essay 3: can be anything from 2 to 50 years.
• Picking up your work
  Final exams and any other work will be available in Prof. Marcuse's office during Spring quarter.
  Please try to pick them up during my office hours, xxxxx. If you would like your work left in the envelope outside my door, or to arrange a different pick-up time, send me an e-mail or leave a note.
• The most useful things on this page are probably the links page (for the journal assignment) and the lecture handouts.
• Questions about your grade? Send me an e-mail and I will respond with your course grade.
  Please note that I grade THE WORK YOU SUBMITTED, not you.
  If you feel that the grade you received on your paper or exam does not correspond to the quality of work that you submitted, you can either:
  • Print out, complete, and submit the following Grade Change Application Form
  • OR: Write a page (or paragraph, whatever it takes) explaining WHY you think your work deserves higher than the grade assigned to it. For papers, please refer to the blue assignment sheet first, to make sure you did the assignment. Then resubmit the work in question with your explanation, and I will regrade it and get back to you.
  
  Note that I may reduce your grade as well as raise it or leave it the same.
  Be sure to put some contact address on your explanation sheet, so that I can be in touch with you.

Headings on this web page

• Course Materials with lecture handouts
• Links page for journal assignment
• Interesting web sites
• Syllabi of on-line German history courses
• Purchasing course books
• Materials from 1998 course web site, including procedure for grade complaints

Course Materials (back to top)

• Syllabus
• Bernhard Schlink: The Reader (Oprah's questions)
• Heinrich Boll Handout
• page of links to media sources for journal assignment
• Reader Table of Contents
• journal and term paper assignment, and text of professor's 1998 sample journal
• addition to prospectus handout, with sample topics
• Lecture Handouts (will be posted after each lecture)
• final exam study guide

Lecture Handouts (links will be dead until after lecture) (back to top)

• L2 What is Germany? Three Reichs, Two Democracies
• L3 Origins of Nazism: German "Special Paths"; see also overlay.
• L4 What was Nazism?--Views from Before and After
• L5 Hot Wash, Cold War: The Denazification Laundry
• L6 Women in West Germany
• L7 Foundations of the SED State; Heinrich Boll Handout
• L8 The 1950s in East and West
• L9 Boell discussion and Berlin Wall
• L10 The 1960s: Stagnating Socialism in the East
• L11 The 1960s: A "Sea Change" in the West?
• L12 Old Conservatives and New Radicals: Political and Cultural Tides of the 1970s
• L13 The 1970s as a Decade of Transition
• L14 Politics and Political Culture in the 1980s
• L15 1987-89: Cracks in the Iron Curtain
• L16 The Fall of the Berlin Wall, I (with chronological handout)
• L17 Prof. Helmut Dubiel, "Hitler's Children: Coping with the Past in the 1970s"
• L18 The East German Revolution, II
• L19 Confronting "Nazism" in the 1990s
• L20 Final discussion

Interesting web sites (back to top)

• On-line archive of East German propaganda (excellent site at Calvin College)
• The Life and Death of the Berlin Wall (on-line exhibition hosted by the German Historical Museum in Berlin)
• JFK's 1963 and Reagan's 1987 speeches at the National Archives in Washington
• map of Germany today (by Microsoft encarta)
• Justifying the Feb. 1945 Bombing of Dresden by the British National Archives Churchill site [9/08: 2001 internet archive version; original link updated]
  see also their "learning curve" exercise for schools on "Heroes and Villians of the Twentieth Century" [updated 9/08]
• Artworks stolen during Nazism and World War II: British site, German site,
• Schindler's List: bibliography of materials (UC Berkeley library media center)
• National Holocaust Memorial in Berlin
• Jan. 27, 2000 BBC summary report, with links
• July 9, 1995 NPR audio report on the unsuccessful first competition (4:30 mins, requires RealAudio)
• June 26, 1999 Detroit News report
• June 27, 1999 audio report from NPR (4 mins, require Realaudio)
• Berlin Senate page on the competition, with photos of the 8 finalist designs in Nov. 1997 (in German)
• Pages with English summary of events (by Meera Deean, student at William's College)
• Jan. 30, 2000 BBC report on neo-Nazi protest against

Some on-line German history courses (back to top)

Explore some of these on-line courses to see some of the different emphases set by instructors of courses on post-1945 German history.

• German Civilization, 1945-1989 and 1989-present (Washington College German 305, complex site with multimedia resources)
• Germany 1848-present (Dan Rogers, Univ. of South Alabama) (see also multimedia handouts on Nazi period)
• St. Mary's, Maryland (Bjorn Krondorfer, "Holocaust: History, Meaning, Aftermath")
• Univ. of Virginia (Robert Leventhal, "Responses to the Holocaust")
• Lecture manuscripts by Gerhard Rempel, Western New England College (from medieval times to the present, very detailed!

Purchasing the Course Books (back to top)

• VivaSmart offers a comparison of prices from various on-line vendors of textbooks, and at the university bookstore. If you research or purchase you books this way, please let me know how it was, for future reference.
• Reader, 99pp, available at GraphikArt in IV, ca. $10.
• Textbook: Mary Fulbrook, The Divided Nation: A History of Germany, 1918-1990 (Oxford Univ. Press, 1992), $29.25/$21.95/$16.45. Textbook focusing on the post-1945 period. DD240.F85 1992
• Bernhard Schlink, The Reader [person who reads aloud] (1995), $11. In the 1960s, a law students finds out his former lover was a Holocaust perpetrator. PT2680.L54 V6713 1997 (Oprah's questions)
• Heinrich Böll, Billiards at Half-past Nine (1959), $12.95/9.70. This novel examines how three generations of a German family confronted the Nazi period and its aftermath. PT2603.O394 B513 1994

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Various materials from 1998 course (back to top)

• final exam study guide from fall quarter 1998

author: H. Marcuse
created Jan 10, 2000; last updated Mar. 21, 2000 [links to lecture outlines fixed 9/4/08]
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