A note on teaching: Return Q1—explain grading and meaning of +/-; 2 purposes:
pedagogic: make sure you’ve done the reading and thought about it
didactic (teaching): teach a conceptual lesson.
note: types of an ideology, not types of action (types of discrimination
or persecution)
"Punch line" from last lecture:
Underlying international-political (WWI & Versailles), economic
(inflation, depression), and human agency (political mobilization)
causal factors enabling Hitler to attain and retain power
Source of the Day (textbook p. 42, B): Goebbels, 25 March 1933
"mobilization of the mind" vs. "material [economic] mobilization
of the nation"
Retaining power 1933-1936 (slides): carrot and stick
Popular programs:
VW (Volkswagen=people’s car), popular subscription program for 999 Marks
radio (Volksempfänger): one for each household
[Eintopf (one-pot meal)—slide not shown]
Autobahn: interstate highway system (designed during 1920s, only
implemented under H.)
KdF (Kraft durch Freude=Strength through Joy): popular vacation
program
Skillful use of events; ad hoc nature of Hitler’s "strategy" (which
wasn’t one). Early events:
Reichstag Fire 28 Feb. 1933
1 April boycott
1 May rally
10 May book burning
(quotation by Jewish German Heinrich Heine: where they burn books, they
will burn people)