HST 603

This course introduces students to the history of Germany's Third Reich and its international impact from its origins in the 1920s to the aftermath of its defeat in 1945. Topics include the birth of Nazism in Weimar Germany; Adolph Hitler's rise to power; Nazi government, economy, and society; the Holocaust; territorial expansion; the conduct of the Second World War; the collapse of the Third Reich; and ongoing deliberations about its legacies.