Dr Paul Moore

Primarily for 3rd year BA History, BSc International Relations, BSc International Relations and History, and BSc Government and History students, but may be taken by 2nd years where regulations permit. May also be taken as an outside option and by General Course students where regulations, timetabling constraints and teaching capacity permit.

The Nazi regime and its wartime domination of Europe; preconditions, aims, dynamics, methods, and consequences. The course aims to introduce students to the use of primary sources and to a variety of methods and interpretative perspectives, and to offer (i) comprehensive knowledge of Germany's role in this crucial period in European history; (ii) the factual grounding and conceptual apparatus necessary to understand the contemporary implications of the Nazi experiment, and (iii) a firm basis for more advanced historical work in this and other areas. Printed English-language primary sources and a large secondary literature will be studied to seek understanding of the history of Nazi Germany, of its domination of Europe during the Second World War, and the often bitter debates on its nature, actions, and place in European and world history. Topics covered in lectures and discussion include: the structure of Nazi 'government' and the role of its leader; the nature and role of ideology; Nazi paramilitarism; the 'partial identity of aims' between the Nazi movement and key German elites such as the officer corps and big business; the radicalization of Nazi domestic and foreign policy; the murder of the European Jews; Nazi long-range racial-demographic planning; Nazi long-term rule, collaboration and resistance in occupied Europe; the German people and the processes of domination and extermination; Gestapo terror and the Germans as an interactive relationship; the role of propaganda and the media; men and women in the Third Reich; the German resistance; the regime's ruinous end; and its imprint on post-war German society.

22 weekly seminars of 2 hours each (MT, LT, ST)

Students will be expected to submit one 2500 word essay from topics designated in the course reading list and a timed gobbet exercise (30 minutes) each term.
Essays do not form part of the final course assessment but they are a required component of the course, and students must complete them in order to be admitted to the course examination. The seminar in the first week of ST will include a mock exam.

A detailed course outline and reading list, subdivided by weekly topics, will be provided at the first lecture, and will also be found, along with other course materials, in the departmental public folders. The following works are fundamental to the course: J Noakes & G Pridham (Eds), Nazism 1919-1945: A Documentary Reader, vols 2-4 (Exeter, 1983-1998); R Evans, The Third Reich in Power (London, 2005) and The Third Reich at War (London, 2008); A Hitler, Mein Kampf (New York, London, 1943) (R Mannheim translation); D Peukert, Inside Nazi Germany (London, 1989); I Kershaw, Hitler (series Profiles in Power) (London, 1991) and The Nazi Dictatorship (London, 4th ed, 2000); K Hildebrand, The Foreign Policy of the Third Reich (London, 1973); Mark Mazower, Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe (London, 2008); Robert Gellately, Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany (Oxford, 2001).

90% three-hour written examination in the ST; 10% assessed presentation in the LT.