Week 9: Interwar Europe

Tuesday: Politics and Social Polarization

Prepare for Class

Read:

• Secondary Sources:
  • Laurie Marhoefer, “Degeneration, Sexual Freedom, and the Politics of the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933,” German Studies Review 34, no. 3 (2011): 529–49.
• Primary Sources:
  • Felix Gilbert on Weimar culture in Berlin (1988)
  • Oswald Spengler:The Decline of The West, 1922

Thursday: The Economy and Social Disruption

Prepare for Class

Presentation

Read:

• Secondary Sources:
  • Sandra Halperin, “The Polarization of European Society, 1918-1939,” in War and Social Change in Modern Europe: The Great Transformation Revisited, 1st ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2003), 175-199 (on Zotero)
• Primary Sources:
  • Von Papen on problems of the Weimar Republic (1953)