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this class we will analyze the tension between the dream of national
unity and the reality of division by class, gender, region and religion
in Germany from the revolution of 1848 until the reunification of
West and East Germany in 1990/91. Our topics will include the birth
of Marxian socialism, Bismarck and the wars of natioal unification,
the growth of the labor movement and origins of modern feminism,
the relationship between domestic and foreign policy in 1914, the
relationship between economics and politics in the Weimar Republic,
the Nazi seizure of power, the campaign by the Third Reich to stifle
all dissent, the Second World War and the Holocaust, the consolidation
of democracy in the Federal Republic of Germany, the collapse of
the German Democratic Republic, and the successes and frustrations
of national reunification.
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ASPECTS OF GERMAN HISTORY
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History Department | Grinnell College
Last updated October 12, 2004