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HIST 2509 A History of Germany

HIST 2509 A History of Germany. Lecture W3-2 The 1920s. TA Office Hours. Meaghan Harris (L-Z 2% applied to final grade) Email: emharris@connect.carleton.ca 437 Paterson Hall Friday January 20 1:00-2:30 Tuesday January 24 11:30-1:00. TA Office Hours.

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HIST 2509 A History of Germany

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  1. HIST 2509 A History of Germany Lecture W3-2 The 1920s

  2. TA Office Hours Meaghan Harris (L-Z 2% applied to final grade) Email: emharris@connect.carleton.ca 437 Paterson Hall Friday January 20 1:00-2:30 Tuesday January 24 11:30-1:00

  3. TA Office Hours Margaret Watts (A-K 2% not applied -- I will do this on spreadsheet, no worries!) Email: mwatts@connect.carleton.ca 1302 Dunton Tower Wednesday January 18, 25 12-1pm Friday January 20, 27 10-11am

  4. Today’s Main Themes • postwar chaos • social, cultural features of 1920s • what would Hitler come to decry as “decadent” and “ungerman”

  5. I. The Face of Defeat • The revolution of 1918/19 • b. the Weimar Constitution – the Basic Law -women’s suffrage -universal manhood suffrage c.  the Versailles Diktat -Wilson’s 14 points -the dictated peace -reparations -John Maynard Keynes

  6. September 1, 1923

  7. A woman feeds a stovepipe with RM From the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Archive

  8. II. Political Unrest a. putsches and coups b. assassinations c. inflation d. reparations and Ruhr occupation e. gradual international acceptance at least for a time

  9. a. putsches and coups -Kapp-Putsch 1920, Luettzow Putsch -Beer Hall 1923 -Thuringia and Saxony Kapp-Putschists spreading leaflets in front of Reichs Chancellery in Berlin DHM Berlin, 13. März 1920

  10. b. assassinations Enzenberger Rathenau Eisner

  11. c. inflation 1923d. reparations and occupation -Ruhr and Rhineland -passive resistance -Rhineland Bastards Hands off the Ruhr! Anti-French placard by Theo Matejko from 1923 DHM

  12. e. stabilization and acceptance 1923-29f. integration: healing of past wounds? -Locarno, Dawes, Young Plans -the infirm -600,000 war widows -2.7 million veterans -6 million children lost one or both parents -rift between l and r gone? From the series, Victims of the First World War, 1933

  13. f. integration: healing of past wounds? until 1924: -hunger still a feature of life -pacifism vs. militarism (Stahlhelm, veterans organizations) -anti-semitism in wake of war Germany’s Children are Starving, by Käthe Kollwitz, 1924

  14. III. Weimar Culture(s) • experimentalism in art and life Potsdamer Platz, Berlin 1925

  15. III. Weimar Culture(s) • experimentalism in art and life -Neue Sachlichkeit (new sobriety) -veterans but angered by the war -Georg Grosz and Otto Dix *seen as communist, Jewish, and decadent by right

  16. Otto Dix soldier, veteran, artist

  17. Anti-war themes Otto Dix, Gas Attack, 1925

  18. Otto Dix, Mealtime in the Trenches, 1923/34

  19. Otto Dix, Mealtime in the Trenches, 1923/34

  20. Georg Grosz, artist, communist

  21. Social Critique Georg Grosz Republican Automatons, 1920

  22. Social Critique Georg Grosz Life in Berlin, 1930

  23. Sexuality and Modernity Otto Dix The Metropolis, 1917

  24. Sexuality and Modernity Otto Dix

  25. Sexuality and Modernity Graf St. Genois d’Anneaucourt Christian Schad1927

  26. Sexuality and Modernity Christian Schad Self Portrait with Nude 1927

  27. Sexuality and Modernity Otto Dix, The French Journalist 1927

  28. Bauhaus Walter Gropius

  29. Film -- German Expressionism The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, 1920

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