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HIST 2509 A History of Germany. Lecture W3-2 The 1920s. TA Office Hours. Meaghan Harris (L-Z 2% applied to final grade) Email: [email protected] 437 Paterson Hall Friday January 20 1:00-2:30 Tuesday January 24 11:30-1:00. TA Office Hours. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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HIST 2509 A History of Germany
Lecture W3-2
The 1920s
TA Office Hours
Meaghan Harris (L-Z 2% applied to final grade)
Email: [email protected]
437 Paterson Hall
Friday January 20 1:00-2:30
Tuesday January 24 11:30-1:00
TA Office Hours
Margaret Watts (A-K 2% not applied -- I will do this on spreadsheet, no worries!)
Email: [email protected]
1302 Dunton Tower
Wednesday January 18, 25 12-1pm
Friday January 20, 27 10-11am
Today’s Main Themes
• postwar chaos• social, cultural features of 1920s• what would Hitler come to decry as
“decadent” and “ungerman”
I. The Face of Defeat
a. The revolution of 1918/19
b. b. the Weimar Constitution – the Basic Law
-women’s suffrage
-universal manhood suffrage
c. the Versailles Diktat
-Wilson’s 14 points
-the dictated peace
-reparations
-John Maynard Keynes
September 1, 1923
A woman feeds a stovepipe with RMFrom the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Archive
II. Political Unrest
a. putsches and coups
b. assassinations
c. inflation
d. reparations and Ruhr occupation
e. gradual international acceptance at least for a time
-Kapp-Putsch 1920, Luettzow Putsch
-Beer Hall 1923
-Thuringia
and Saxony
a. putsches and coups
Kapp-Putschists spreading leaflets in front of Reichs Chancellery in Berlin DHM Berlin, 13. März 1920
b. assassinations
Enzenberger Rathenau
Eisner
-Ruhr and Rhineland
-passive resistance
-Rhineland Bastards
Hands off the Ruhr!
Anti-French placard
by Theo Matejko
from 1923
DHM
c. inflation 1923d. reparations and occupation
-Locarno, Dawes, Young Plans
-the infirm
-600,000 war widows
-2.7 million veterans
-6 million children
lost one or both parents
-rift between l and r gone?
e. stabilization and acceptance 1923-29f. integration: healing of past wounds?
From the series, Victims of the First World War, 1933
until 1924:
-hunger still a feature of life
-pacifism vs. militarism
(Stahlhelm, veterans organizations)
-anti-semitism in wake of war
f. integration: healing of past wounds?
Germany’s Children are Starving, by Käthe Kollwitz, 1924
III. Weimar Culture(s)
a. experimentalism in art and life
Potsdamer Platz, Berlin1925
III. Weimar Culture(s)
a. experimentalism in art and life
-Neue Sachlichkeit (new sobriety)
-veterans but angered by the war
-Georg Grosz and Otto Dix
*seen as communist, Jewish, and decadent by right
Otto Dix soldier, veteran, artist
Anti-war themes
Otto Dix, Gas Attack, 1925
Otto Dix, Mealtime in the Trenches, 1923/34
Otto Dix, Mealtime in the Trenches, 1923/34
Georg Grosz, artist, communist
Social Critique
Georg GroszRepublican Automatons, 1920
Social Critique
Georg GroszLife in Berlin, 1930
Sexuality and Modernity
Otto DixThe Metropolis, 1917
Sexuality and Modernity
Otto Dix
Sexuality and Modernity
Graf St. Genois d’AnneaucourtChristian Schad1927
Sexuality and Modernity
Christian SchadSelf Portrait with Nude1927
Sexuality and Modernity
Otto Dix,The French Journalist1927
Bauhaus
Walter Gropius
Film -- German Expressionism
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, 1920
