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This presentation will summarize the social, political, and militaristic events in Germany~1925-50 Lauren’s discussion of 1900-25: WWI, Treaty of Versailles, League of Nations (UN 1945), Nazi Party (NSDAP) Social – technology, and art/architecture, literature, music Political – rise of Hitler in 1930’s http://www.klisia.net/ blog/swastika.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ commons/thumb/4/49/Star_of_David. svg/300px-Star_of_David.svg.png Militaristic – horrific WWII Conclusion – global after effects http://dev.forcesofvalor. com/images/product/pri mary_image/85003.jpg http://burningbosom.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/question_mark.jpg Germany: ca. 1925-1950 2 GER2724 - German Culture & Civilization Major advances in technology were made in the second industrialization of Germany after WWI http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi a/commons/9/98/Deutsche_Lufthan sa_Junkers_G.38.jpg North German Lloyd’s Bremen http://cruiselinehistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/ss_bremen_1_30595624_std.jpg Junkers G.38 largest transport plane Dornier Do X largest seaplane http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Dox.JPG Autobahn – Cologne to Bonn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:German_Autobahn_1936_1939.jpg Kruckenberg’s Schienenzeppelin fastest railcar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Schienenzepp_ramp.jpg Werner Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle Germany: ca. 1925-1950 3 GER2724 - German Culture & Civilization There is a whole other set of technology associated specifically with the Wehrmacht, the defense force Arthur Scherbius’ Wehrmacht Enigma http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Enigma.jpg Jerrycan fuel containers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Jerrycans_AMW.jpg V-1 – 1st cruise missile http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:V1FlyingBomb.JPG Panther & Tiger tanks counter Soviet T-34 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:TigerITankTunis.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:PantherTankColor.jpg Messerschmitt Me 262 – 1st turbojet fighter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Messerschmitt_Me_262A_at_the_National_Museum_of_the_USAF.jpg Germany: ca. 1925-1950 4 GER2724 - German Culture & Civilization German architecture was beginning to focus around modernization, and the working class until Nazism Lauren introduced us to expressionism and the New Objectivity (post-expressionism) Walter Gropius’ Bauhaus architecture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:BauhausType.jpg Hannes Meyer (1927-30), Ludwig Miles van der Rohe (1930-33) Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky’s Frankfurt kitchen (1926) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Frankfurterkueche.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Weissenhof_Scharoun_1.jpg Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart 1927, Intended for the working class Germany: ca. 1925-1950 5 GER2724 - German Culture & Civilization The Nazi regime dubbed everything “degenerate art” and the only art/architecture left had to be approved Blut und Boden - “Blood and Soil” (descent and homeland) Adolf Wissel’s Kalenberger Bauernfamilie http://www.jungeforschung.de/bildervl/wissel.jpg Arno Breker’s Die Partei http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:ArnoBrekerDiePartei.jpg Albert Speer’s Zeppelinfeld http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Lichtdom.jpg Speer, Hitler, and Breker in Paris http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Adolf_Hitler_in_Paris_1940.jpg Germany: ca. 1925-1950 6 GER2724 - German Culture & Civilization There were numerous authors up to and throughout Nazi Germany, who exiled them and burned works Thomas Mann, Nobel Prize in Literature 1929 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Thomas_Mann_1937.jpg Magic Mountain – extremely influential (1924) Doktor Faustus – anti-WWII, anti-Nazi (1947) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Klaus_Mann.jpg His son Klaus Mann’s Mephisto – anti-Nazi (1936) Ernst Jünger’s Storm of Steel and Der Arbeiter http://criticomo.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/20070613212553-ernst-junger.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:AllQuietOnTheWesternFront.jpg Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front Germany: ca. 1925-1950 7 GER2724 - German Culture & Civilization There were numerous authors up to and throughout Nazi Germany, who exiled them and burned works Carl von Ossietzky (pacifist) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Carl_von_Ossietzky.jpg Anna Seghers’ The Seventh Cross (1942) http://golm.rz.uni-potsdam.de/mexiko/Rabe/images/portraetserghers.jpg Nobel Prize in Literature 1946 Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hermann_Hesse_1927_Photo_Gret_Widmann.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Joseph_S%C3%BC%C3%9F_Oppenheimer.jpg Lion Feuchtwanger’ Jud Süß (1925) and Erfolg (Success) Germany: ca. 1925-1950 8 GER2724 - German Culture & Civilization Many composers emigrated to the US when Nazis came to power, and the ones who remained are few Willhelm Furtwängler http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wilhelm _Furtw%C3%A4ngler_by_Emil_Orlik.jpeg http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Cour tyard/1652/Media/Karajan.JPG Herbert von Karajan (conductor) Believed to have joined the Nazis to continue his career Highly critical of Nazis but stayed and performed at events Marlene Dietrich http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Marlene_Dietrich_in_Stage_Fright_trailer.jpg Swing Movement Germany: ca. 1925-1950 Cabaret singer, first German to be a Hollywood actress, very anti-Nazi 9 GER2724 - German Culture & Civilization The film industry boomed in the 1920s then seized by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) Leni Reifenstahl’s Triumph des Willens (1934) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image :Triumph_poster.jpg Fritz Hippler’s Der ewige Jude (1940) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imag e:Metropolisposter.jpg Germany: ca. 1925-1950 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:EwigerJudeFilm.jpg 10 GER2724 - German Culture & Civilization There are a number of German terms mentioned associated with Nazism and Hitler’s rise to power Dolchestoßlegende – “stab-in-the-back legend” •WWI to WWII •Jews’ lack of patriotism as a scapegoat Sturmabteilung (SA) – “Assault squadron” • street fights with Communists, Social Democrats •Hitler Youth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I mage:SA-Logo.svg Machtergreifung – “Seizure of power” •Jan. 30, 1933 •Debate whether it was seizure or sneaking Gliechschaltung – “forcing into line” •1933-37: Elimination of non-Nazi organizations (trade unions, political parties) Gestapo (geheime Staatspolizei) – “Secret State Police” •Prussian Secret Police • Nazi Germany •Nuremberg Trials Schutzstaffel (SS) – “ Protective Squadron” •“Aryan ideology” •supreme loyalty •Holocaust http://www.aclibrary.org/eventkeeper/Graphics/CTV/play%20button.jpg Germany: ca. 1925-1950 11 GER2724 - German Culture & Civilization The events going on in the background at the time create atmosphere of panic, hate, massive violence animosity from Britain, France, US Germany turns to new Soviet Union http://www.nationstates.n et/images/flags/uploads/t he_all-soviet_union.jpg Germany defaults on reparation payments, Ruhr region occupied, passive resistance http://www.webstock pro.com/Comp/Phot odisc2/78567040.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I mage:Inflation-1923.jpg Germany: ca. 1925-1950 http://freewarelogo.ve gard2.no/no_dollar.gif 1920s hyperinflation 1929 stock market crash 1930s mass unemployment Bitterness about Weimar Republic (1918-1933) 12 GER2724 - German Culture & Civilization Hitler rises to power by winning electoral battles at a time of chaos by promising changes to the people http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/images/highres_00023142%20copy.jpg 1923 Beer Hall Putsch – failed coup Prison time: Mein Kampf http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co mmons/b/b5/Paul_von_Hindenburg.jpeg 1930 Great Depression 1932 Hitler’s German citizenship Hindenburg re-elected Order of new Chancellors: Heinrich Brüning Franz von Papen Kurt von Schleicher Adolf Hitler (1933) Germany: ca. 1925-1950 1924: calmer politics, better economy 1925: Pres. Paul von Hindenburg 1933 Reichstag Fire Decree citizen rights Enabling Act of 1933 Third Reich 1934 Night of the Long Knives SS 1935 Nuremberg Laws discrimination 1936 Germans in demilitarized Rhineland 1938 “Anschluss” - Großdeutschland 13 GER2724 - German Culture & Civilization Hitler’s decision of an offensive in foreign policy sparks the deadliest conflict in human history: WWII Axis Powers Germany Allied Powers USSR Italy British Empire Japan United States http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/images/jude2.gif http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co mmons/b/b5/Paul_von_Hindenburg.jpeg Germany: ca. 1925-1950 14 GER2724 - German Culture & Civilization WWII devastated Germany’s government, economy, people, left it physically divided, and led to Cold War Unconditional surrender at Reims: end of Germany as a nation state http://www.historicaldocuments. com/GermanySurrenders1.jpg Potsdam Agreement (Conference) – Germany: no threats to world peace http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/WW2Pics5/26347bg.jpg widespread homelessness, hunger, crime, displacement of people http://www.ushmm.org/lcmedia/photo/lc/image/66/66970.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi a/commons/8/85/Berlin-wall.jpg Germany: ca. 1925-1950 Marshall Plan, Soviets block West Berlin, Cold War, Berlin Airlift 15 GER2724 - German Culture & Civilization In conclusion, Germany is left divided into the East and West Germany until fall of Berlin Wall in 1989 Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) German Democratic Republic (GDR) “West Germany” “East Germany” Marshall Plan Communist state NATO Warsaw Pact Wirtschaftswunder “Stasi” secret police http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1998/09/ger many/east.west/germany.berlin.east.west.jpg Germany: ca. 1925-1950 16 GER2724 - German Culture & Civilization