Date |
Subject |
Readings |
Tuesday, Jan 27 |
Zero Hour? |
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Thursday, Jan 29 |
Denazification |
Stern: Occupiers, Germans and Jews in Postwar Germany
Winkler: Germany, 108-122 |
Tuesday, Feb 3 |
Sovietization in the East |
Winkler: Germany, 128-131 |
Thursday, Feb 5 |
Marshall Plan and the Berlin Blockade |
Clay: Berlin |
Tuesday, Feb 10 |
From SBZ to GDR |
Winkler: Germany, 141-146 |
Thursday, Feb 12 |
The Adenauer Years |
Adenauer: Germany and Problems of our Time
Winkler: Germany, 122-128; 131-141; 154-171 |
Tuesday, Feb 17 |
Discussion: Billiards at Half-Past Nine |
Böll: Billiards (all) |
Thursday, Feb 19 |
The West German Economic Miracle |
Winkler: Germany, 146-154
QUIZ #1 |
Tuesday, Feb 24 |
The June 17 Uprising |
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Thursday Feb 26 |
Consumer Culture in East and West |
Pence: Women on the Verge |
Tuesday, Mar 3 |
Building the Berlin Wall |
Ross: Before the Wall
Winkler: Germany, 171-189 |
Thursday, Mar 5 |
Cultural Politics in East and West |
Winkler: Germany, 190-210 |
Tuesday, Mar 10 |
Mid-Term Exam |
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Thursday, Mar 12 |
No Class |
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March 17 & 19 |
No Class – Spring Break |
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Tuesday, Mar 24 |
1968 in East and West |
Winkler: Germany, 210-256 |
Thursday, Mar 26 |
Willy Brandt’s New Ostpolitik |
Merkl: The German Janus
Winkler: Germany, 256-265, 271-296
PAPER PROSPECTUS DUE |
Tuesday, Mar 31 |
The GDR under Honecker |
Winkler: Germany, 265-271, 296-298, 310-312 |
Thursday, Apr 2 |
Discussion: New Sorrows of Young W |
Plenzdorf: New Sorrows (all) |
Tuesday, Apr 7 |
Terrorism in the BRD |
Winkler: Germany, 298-310, 312-318 |
Thursday, Apr 9 |
“Normalcy” in East-West German relations |
Winkler: Germany, 331-337
QUIZ #2 |
TBA |
FILM: The Lives of Others |
Time and place to be announced |
Tuesday, Apr 14 |
Guest Workers, Greens, and Citizen Action Groups |
Herbert & Hunn: Guest Workers
Winkler: Germany, 318-330, 337-354 |
Thursday, Apr 16 |
The Return of the “Nation” |
Olsen: Recasting Luther’s Image
Winkler: Germany, 385-418 |
Tuesday, Apr 21 |
No Class: Patriot’s Day (Monday Classes Meet on Tuesday) |
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Thursday, Apr 23 |
Resistance in the GDR |
Ramet: Disaffection and Dissent in East Germany
Winkler: Germany, 419-434 |
Tuesday, Apr 28 |
The Schmidt and Kohl Years |
Winkler: Germany, 354-385 |
Thursday, Apr 30 |
Revolution in the East |
Osmond: The End of the GDR
Winkler: Germany, 435-467 |
TBA |
FILM: Goodbye, Lenin! |
Time and place to be announced |
Tuesday, May 5 |
German Unification |
Winkler: Germany, 468-543 |
Thursday, May 7 |
Discussion: The File |
Garton Ash: The File (all)
QUIZ #3 |
Tuesday, May 12 |
Post-Unification Challenges |
Heilbrunn: Germany’s New Right
Winkler: Germany, 543-588
TERM PAPER DUE |
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