This syllabus was submitted to the Rhodes College Office of Academic Affairs by the course instructor.
This seminar is designed to introduce the student to the history of Nazi Germany. It will cover the end of the Weimar Republic; the life and ideology of Adolf Hitler; the Nazi take-over of power in 1933; Nazi domestic and foreign policy in the pre-war years; German successes, setbacks and eventual defeat in World War II; Nazi occupation policy; and Nazi policy towards the Jews and the Holocaust.