UCSB Hist 133C	Prof. Marcuse
German History since 1945	Jan. 20, 2000

Lecture 4: What was Nazism? Views from Before and After

Q1

What was Hanna's secret? same as: Why did Hanna sign up with the SS for guard duty?
What feeling came to pervade Michael and the people involved in the trial on a daily basis?

Schlink discussion (see also comments at amazon.com, and Apr. 1999 on www.h-net.msu.edu/~german/)

Your reactions? Favorite passages?
My "most telling" passages

147f: "frozen" scenes of atrocities
169: Form and issue of the generational conflict in 1960s West Germany

Questions from Oprah (http://Oprah.com/obc/pastbooks/bernhard_schlink/obc_pb_19990226_ques.html)

Ursula Duba (born in Cologne, Germany in 1939; "discovered" Nazism in 1958)

Poem "A Slice of Bread" (in: Tales from a Child of the Enemy)
What's the point?

What was Nazism?

From the perspective of the late 1920s? (For Hanna Schmitz? Ursula Duba's father?)

From the Allied perspective during the war? In 1945?

The "Three Founding Myths" of post-1945 West Germany (see Reader no. 3)

N=glory (repressed)

consequence:

N=selfishness, opportunism (forgotten)

consequence:

N=brutal repression (feeling of victimization; or resisted)

consequence:

N=integral part of German history (rediscovered in 1960s)

consequence: