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HIST 2509 A History of Germany. Lecture W3-2 The 1920s. TA Office Hours. Meaghan Harris (L-Z 2% applied to final grade) Email: [email protected] 437 Paterson Hall Friday January 20 1:00-2:30 Tuesday January 24 11:30-1:00. TA Office Hours. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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HIST 2509 A History of Germany
Lecture W3-2
The 1920s
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TA Office Hours
Meaghan Harris (L-Z 2% applied to final grade)
Email: [email protected]
437 Paterson Hall
Friday January 20 1:00-2:30
Tuesday January 24 11:30-1:00
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TA Office Hours
Margaret Watts (A-K 2% not applied -- I will do this on spreadsheet, no worries!)
Email: [email protected]
1302 Dunton Tower
Wednesday January 18, 25 12-1pm
Friday January 20, 27 10-11am
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Today’s Main Themes
• postwar chaos• social, cultural features of 1920s• what would Hitler come to decry as
“decadent” and “ungerman”
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I. The Face of Defeat
a. The revolution of 1918/19
b. 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
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September 1, 1923
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A woman feeds a stovepipe with RMFrom the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Archive
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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
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-Kapp-Putsch 1920, Luettzow Putsch
-Beer Hall 1923
-Thuringia
and Saxony
a. putsches and coups
Kapp-Putschists spreading leaflets in front of Reichs Chancellery in Berlin DHM Berlin, 13. März 1920
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b. assassinations
Enzenberger Rathenau
Eisner
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-Ruhr and Rhineland
-passive resistance
-Rhineland Bastards
Hands off the Ruhr!
Anti-French placard
by Theo Matejko
from 1923
DHM
c. inflation 1923d. reparations and occupation
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-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?
e. stabilization and acceptance 1923-29f. integration: healing of past wounds?
From the series, Victims of the First World War, 1933
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until 1924:
-hunger still a feature of life
-pacifism vs. militarism
(Stahlhelm, veterans organizations)
-anti-semitism in wake of war
f. integration: healing of past wounds?
Germany’s Children are Starving, by Käthe Kollwitz, 1924
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III. Weimar Culture(s)
a. experimentalism in art and life
Potsdamer Platz, Berlin1925
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III. Weimar Culture(s)
a. 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
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Otto Dix soldier, veteran, artist
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Anti-war themes
Otto Dix, Gas Attack, 1925
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Otto Dix, Mealtime in the Trenches, 1923/34
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Otto Dix, Mealtime in the Trenches, 1923/34
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Georg Grosz, artist, communist
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Social Critique
Georg GroszRepublican Automatons, 1920
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Social Critique
Georg GroszLife in Berlin, 1930
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Sexuality and Modernity
Otto DixThe Metropolis, 1917
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Sexuality and Modernity
Otto Dix
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Sexuality and Modernity
Graf St. Genois d’AnneaucourtChristian Schad1927
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Sexuality and Modernity
Christian SchadSelf Portrait with Nude1927
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Sexuality and Modernity
Otto Dix,The French Journalist1927
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Bauhaus
Walter Gropius
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Film -- German Expressionism
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, 1920