Transcript Slide 1

This presentation will summarize the social,
political, and militaristic events in Germany~1925-50
Lauren’s discussion of 1900-25: WWI, Treaty of Versailles,
League of Nations (UN 1945), Nazi Party (NSDAP)
Social – technology, and art/architecture, literature, music
Political – rise of Hitler in 1930’s
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Militaristic – horrific WWII
Conclusion – global after effects
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Major advances in technology were made in the
second industrialization of Germany after WWI
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North German Lloyd’s Bremen
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Junkers G.38 largest transport plane
Dornier Do X largest seaplane
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Autobahn – Cologne to Bonn
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Kruckenberg’s Schienenzeppelin fastest railcar
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Werner Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle
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There is a whole other set of technology associated
specifically with the Wehrmacht, the defense force
Arthur Scherbius’ Wehrmacht Enigma
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Jerrycan fuel containers
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V-1 – 1st cruise missile
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Panther & Tiger tanks counter Soviet T-34
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Messerschmitt Me 262 – 1st turbojet fighter
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German architecture was beginning to focus around
modernization, and the working class until Nazism
Lauren introduced us to expressionism and
the New Objectivity (post-expressionism)
Walter Gropius’ Bauhaus architecture
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Hannes Meyer (1927-30), Ludwig Miles van der Rohe (1930-33)
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky’s Frankfurt kitchen (1926)
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Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart 1927,
Intended for the working class
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The Nazi regime dubbed everything “degenerate art”
and the only art/architecture left had to be approved
Blut und Boden - “Blood and Soil” (descent and homeland)
Adolf Wissel’s Kalenberger Bauernfamilie
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Arno Breker’s Die Partei
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Albert Speer’s Zeppelinfeld
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Speer, Hitler, and Breker in Paris
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There were numerous authors up to and throughout
Nazi Germany, who exiled them and burned works
Thomas Mann, Nobel Prize in Literature 1929
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Magic Mountain – extremely influential (1924)
Doktor Faustus – anti-WWII, anti-Nazi (1947)
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His son Klaus Mann’s Mephisto – anti-Nazi (1936)
Ernst Jünger’s Storm of Steel and Der Arbeiter
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Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front
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There were numerous authors up to and throughout
Nazi Germany, who exiled them and burned works
Carl von Ossietzky (pacifist)
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Anna Seghers’ The Seventh Cross (1942)
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Nobel Prize in Literature 1946
Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game
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Lion Feuchtwanger’ Jud Süß (1925) and Erfolg (Success)
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Many composers emigrated to the US when Nazis
came to power, and the ones who remained are few
Willhelm Furtwängler
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Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
Believed to have joined the
Nazis to continue his career
Highly critical of Nazis but stayed
and performed at events
Marlene Dietrich
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Swing Movement
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Cabaret singer, first German to be
a Hollywood actress, very anti-Nazi
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The film industry boomed in the 1920s then seized
by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels
Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927)
Leni Reifenstahl’s Triumph
des Willens (1934)
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Fritz Hippler’s
Der ewige Jude (1940)
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There are a number of German terms mentioned
associated with Nazism and Hitler’s rise to power
Dolchestoßlegende – “stab-in-the-back legend”
•WWI to WWII
•Jews’ lack of patriotism as a scapegoat
Sturmabteilung (SA) – “Assault squadron”
• street fights with Communists, Social Democrats
•Hitler Youth
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Machtergreifung – “Seizure of power”
•Jan. 30, 1933 •Debate whether it was seizure or sneaking
Gliechschaltung – “forcing into line”
•1933-37: Elimination of non-Nazi organizations (trade unions, political parties)
Gestapo (geheime Staatspolizei) – “Secret State Police”
•Prussian Secret Police
• Nazi Germany
•Nuremberg Trials
Schutzstaffel (SS) – “ Protective Squadron”
•“Aryan ideology”
•supreme loyalty
•Holocaust
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The events going on in the background at the time
create atmosphere of panic, hate, massive violence
animosity from Britain, France, US
Germany turns to new Soviet Union
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Germany defaults on reparation payments,
Ruhr region occupied, passive resistance
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1920s hyperinflation
1929 stock market crash
1930s mass unemployment
Bitterness about Weimar Republic (1918-1933)
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Hitler rises to power by winning electoral battles at a
time of chaos by promising changes to the people
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1923
Beer Hall Putsch –
failed coup
Prison time: Mein Kampf
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1930 Great Depression
1932
Hitler’s German citizenship
Hindenburg re-elected
Order of new Chancellors:
Heinrich Brüning
Franz von Papen
Kurt von Schleicher
Adolf Hitler (1933)
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1924: calmer politics, better economy
1925: Pres. Paul von Hindenburg
1933 Reichstag Fire Decree  citizen rights
Enabling Act of 1933  Third Reich
1934 Night of the Long Knives  SS
1935 Nuremberg Laws  discrimination
1936 Germans in demilitarized Rhineland
1938 “Anschluss” - Großdeutschland
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Hitler’s decision of an offensive in foreign policy
sparks the deadliest conflict in human history: WWII
Axis Powers
Germany
Allied Powers
USSR
Italy
British Empire
Japan
United States
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WWII devastated Germany’s government, economy,
people, left it physically divided, and led to Cold War
Unconditional surrender at Reims:
end of Germany as a nation state
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Potsdam Agreement (Conference) –
Germany: no threats to world peace
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widespread homelessness, hunger,
crime, displacement of people
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Marshall Plan, Soviets block West
Berlin, Cold War, Berlin Airlift
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In conclusion, Germany is left divided into the East
and West Germany until fall of Berlin Wall in 1989
Federal Republic of Germany (FRG)
German Democratic Republic (GDR)
“West Germany”
“East Germany”
Marshall Plan
Communist state
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Wirtschaftswunder
“Stasi” secret police
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