roll-call and return of journals at end of class
--Tuskegee syphilis study: the men already had the disease; they
were denied treatment
--book by Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
journals due next Tuesday; paper proposals next Thursday
After Euthanasia (strand I: race science, modernity), Strand
II: Politics (see text 134-6, 147-50)
Hitler as a lucky (and skillful?) gambler: "Weekend
Coups"
Germany leaves the League of Nations, Saturday,
14 October 1933
other "weekend coups": draft in 1935,
Rhineland in 1936
The improvised nature of Hitler's politics
Austria in July 1934: clerical fascist Dollfuss
and Mussolini opposed Hitler
reasons for failure
by March 1938: strong "indigenous" Austrian Nazi
party
Munich Conference, 30 Sept. 1938: "appeasement"
Heinlein and Sudeten Germans; strategic importance
Chamberlain, Daladier, Hitler, Mussolini-not Stalin
"Hitler-Stalin" Pact (Ribbentrop
and Molotov), 23 August 1939
role of Munich conference
28 Apr. 1939: Hitler drops all criticism
of Marxism and Bolshevism
Film clip from Erwin Leiser's Mein Kampf (18 mins.)
Attempted coups against Dollfuss in Austria
(1934) to destruction of Poland (1939)
Speech by Minister of Justice Hans Frank;
also by Rudolf Hess
The Course of World War II
Three Phases:
Blitzkrieg ("lightening war"):
1939-1941
Campaign against the Soviet Union
as "back and forth": June 1941-Feb. 1943
Spring 1940: occupation of Denmark, Norway
(Quisling), Holland
May-June 1940: Belgium and France (Petain
capitulates, 17 June: "Vichy" France)
Hitler as Commander-in-Chief: British troops at Dunkirk
Aug. 1940-Feb. 1941: "Blitz on London,"
"Battle of Britain;" May 40: Churchill Prime Minister
Stalemate; Hitler attacks oil supply route
in eastern Mediterranean
by April 1941: Greece, Yugoslavia conquered; Hungary, Romania,
Bulgaria allied
22 June 1941 (18 Dec. 1940): "Operation
Barbarossa:" Kiev, Leningrad, Moscow
Nov. 1941: Russian winter: German retreat; Dec. 1941: Pearl harbor;
declaration of war on US
Spring & Summer 1942: German advances, but winter arrives
before decisive victory