GER403
9/29/2004
"Phony war" auf deutsch ist "der Sitz Krieg"
Triomph des Willens
S. 69: Reichsarbeitsdienst
-- this is in a DVD we may see
Back to Buber-Neumann
-- sie wurde in Russland verhaftet
-- w?hrend die Sauberung
-- ihr Mann, Heinz Neumann wurde auch verhaftet
-- Stalin hatte Angst f?r andere, die seine F?hrung ?bernehmen konnten
-- warum ist B-N nach Deutschland zur?ck gekommen? Ein Austausch because of the Pakt
-- In Deutschland ist sie in Konzentrationslager, weil sie Kommunistin ist
-- B-N dachte, dass das deutsches Lage besser als die Russische, weil es besseres Essen hat, und es hat Preu?isches Regeln und Ordnung
-- psychological torture, like basic training; grind people down
-- Zugange (new arrivals); keine Namen
-- preu?isch-b?rokratisch
[je -er desto -er; the longer the more beautiful;
Auch je -er umso -er]
-- SS-Arzt Doktor Sonnntag; hit the women with the Reitpeitsche (riding crop)
-- she was amazed at how much food she got in the camp
-- that didn't last as the war went poorly and as there were more and more in the camps
-- they had to stand for hours twice a day in roll call
-- electric fence
-- intent was to dehumanize these people
-- each block was for 100 people but after 1940 there were 250 per block; and at the end of the war, over 500 people
-- other people there were eduated professionals
-- making the bed properly was another torture
-- 4200 women in 16 barracks
-- Teil II: Nachbar Tod
-- told a family by mistake that their relative was dead; they took care of the mistake by killing that person too
At the end of this video is the Nazi Party song:
"Die Fahne hoch"
von Horst Wessel
Rede im Kongresshall von Hess ?ber Hitler
Ein Volk
Ein F?hrer
Ein Reich
Adenauer
Erster Kanzler der BRD
-- Dr Hye was in Germany in 1963 when Kennedy came to Bonn
-- er war in der CDU
-- er lebte nach 91
-- Ludwig Erhard stand hinter diesem Wirtschaftswunder
First writes over the unconditional surrender; a chaos
-- Gro?admiral D?nitz war hitlers Nachfolger (gekannt f?r U-Boot-Taktik)
-- he was imprisoned for 10 years
[Hess was imprisoned alone in Spandau; he had flown to England]
Second he writes over Unsere Lage zwischen den zwei Machtbl?cken
(Americans play Pacman; the Russians play chess)
-- the western powers weren't politically as aware as the Russians, who knew what they wanted
-- weil Deutschland im Herzen Europas liegt, ist es der Brennpunkt (focal point but also buring point)
Themen f?r die Pr?fung:
Pwerpoint intro slides
Zweig text
Schoenberner
Furcht und elend scenes: Der Spitzeel; J?dische Frau
Leonhard - Revolution / Hitler Stalin Pakt
Leonhard-Video-beginning
Buber-neumann under stalin and hitler
Biermann Poem
Hitler rede
F?hmann ?ber Hitler-Rede
Das Lied der Deutschen
Adenauer
Triump des Willens (propganda film)
-- short answer/ID questions
-- short essays on:
Materials listed above
Titles/authors
Key dates
Key concepts -- including how different authors might view the same concepts or share similar experienes
Key quotes: review those passages we stressed in class; be able to tell where they come from and why they are particularly significant
(e.g. Compare what Hitler said and F?hman heard; what the Party said and what Leonhard heard)