HIST 236: Readings in European History, 1919-1945

Christopher Browning

This course is designed to prepare graduate students for comprehensive exams and teaching. Each seminar participant will be responsible at some point in the semester for leading discussion, preparing a written critique of the week's reading, and briefing others on the background of the author of the work being discussed. Each participant will also prepare a concluding historiographical essay on some theme, topic, or methodology encountered during the semester.

The tentative reading list includes:

• Hans Mommsen, The Rise and Fall of Weimar Democracy
• Detlev Peukert, The Weimar Republic: The Crisis of Classical Modernity
• Victoria de Grazia, How Fascism Ruled Women
• Claudia Koonz, Mothers in the Fatherland
• William S. Allen, The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town
• Ian Kershaw, Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich
• Gerald Brenan, The Spanish Labyrinth
• Helen Graham, The Spanish Republic at War
• Omer Bartov, Germany's War and the Holocaust
• Wolfgang Sofsky, The Order of Terror: The Concentration Camp
• Robert G. Moeller, War Stories: The Search for a Useable Past in the Federal Republic