LECTURE 1:
AN INTRODUCTION TO NAZI CRIMINALITY (1933-1945)
& A BRIEF HISTORY OF GERMANY (98 CE – 1918)
SS Schutzstaffel (“special staff” or “guards detachment”)
Reichsfuhrer-SS (RFSS) Heinrich Himmler (1900 – 1945)
SS-Ahnenerbe (ancestral heritage research & study institute) Natzweiler-Struthof
Germania: The Origins and Situation of the Germans (99 CE) by Cornelius Tacitus (55 – 117 CE)
Battle of Teutoburg Forest (Teutoburgwald) (9 CE)
Quinctilius Varus Arminius ( = Herman Hermann Herrmann) Herman the German
Volk Volksgemeinschaft Volkgenossen
Alfred Rosenberg Myth of the 20th Century
Blood and Soil Blut und Boden
The “Five Revolts” of Germany Against Western Civilization (From Teutoburg to the Third Reich)
Charlemagne baptizes the last of the resisting wild Saxon Pagan tribes (772 CE ) [second revolt]
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First Reich: The Holy Roman Empire (962 – 1806)
Friedrich Barbarossa Teutonic Knights
Lebensraum
Martin Luther (1483 – 1546) [third revolt] Thirty Year War ( 1618 – 1648)
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Peace of Westphalia (1648) The Rise of Prussia – 1700s – Fredrick II (The Great) – The Military State
Wars of Independence (1806 – 1813) – Napoleon defeats Prussia and Austria [fourth revolt]
Metternich Period 1815 – 1848 (Austria Dominates)
Johann Gottlieb Fichte Ernst Moritz Arndt Fredrick Ludwick “Father” Jahn Deutsche Volkstum
Rebirth of Prussia – Prussia vs. Austria
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Second Reich 1871 – 1918 (Prussia Dominates)
Otto von Bismark (1815 – 1898) Franco-Prussian War 1870 – 1871 Kaiser Wilhelm I reigns 1871 – 1888 Kaiser Wilhelm II reigns 1888 – 1918 Adolf Hitler born in Austria, April 30, 1889
World War One (The Great War) 1914-1918
Recommended Readings:
Peter Viereck, The Roots of The Nazi Mind
Fritz Nova, Alfred Rosenberg: Nazi Theorist of the Holocaust
Michael Burleigh, Death and Deliverance: ‘Euthanasia’ in Germany 1900-1945
Michael Burleigh, The Third Riech: A New History
Christopher Hale, Himmler’s Crusade: The Nazi Expedition to Find the Origins of the Aryan Race
Peter S. Wells, The Battle That Stopped Rome
Simon Schama, Landscape and Memory
Malcolm Pasley (editor), Germany: A Companion to German Studies (2nd Edition)
Claudia Koonz, The Nazi Conscience