UCSB Hist 133D lecutre outline, Prof. Marcuse

UCSB Hist 133D
The Holocaust in German History

Prof. Marcuse
Sept. 27, 2001

Lecture 2: National Socialism and Its Adherents

Introduction comparing the historical importance of the WTC/Pentagon attacks with the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914.

a coherent ideological program as set out by its leaders (source A)
a combination of nationalist and socialist and racist-biological elements
a variant of a political worldview common at the time (fascism)
terms: Duce, Führer; Reich=Empire, Reichstag=Imperial Convention="Parliament"
the sum of the beliefs of its adherents (Otto Strasser source)
whatever Adolf Hitler wanted it to be

Mein Kampf

(My Struggle; 1926 book) as source

Childhood, artist in Vienna (1907-13), antisemitic groups (Thule society, Artamanen)
- Three types of people/races: culture creating, culture sustaining, culture destroying
- Three factors determining the "racial value" of a people
  [we didn’t cover this explicitly in class]

World War I: messenger, (gas injury)

Revolution in Munich: socialist, spy then member of Deutsche Arbeiter Partei (DAP)?

9 Nov. 1923 Putsch (coup d'etat), 1924 trial, wrote Mein Kampf (My Struggle) while in prison