THE CHOICES PROGRAM BROWN UNIVERSITY
VIDEO COLLECTION

The Weimar Republic and the Rise of Nazi Germany

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Introduction

What was the Weimar Republic?
What is genocide?
Why should high school students learn about the end of the Weimar Republic?

Part I: The Early Weimar Republic

What role did Germany play in World War I?
What is industrialization?
Why did Marxism spread in Europe in response to industrialization?
How did World War I affect Germany and the German people?
How did some artists in Germany respond to World War I?
What are the legacies of the Russian Revolution?
How did antisemitism evolve and what role did it play in modern Europe?
What is the history of the term “antisemitism”?
How did political parties respond to antisemitism in Weimar Germany?
How did the inflation crisis in the early 20s affect Germany and the German people?
What is identity and how did Europeans understand identity in the interwar period?

Part II: Case Studies—Weimar Cities Up Close

How does examining different types of spaces help us to understand history, specifically interwar Europe?
How can studying local history deepen our understanding of larger historical forces?
What is modernism?
What was the interwar gay rights movement in Berlin?
What was it like to work in the mines in the Ruhr region in the early 20th century?
How did the government try to solve the housing crisis during the Weimar Republic?
What are some different political viewpoints Jews had in the interwar period?

Part III: The End of the Weimar Republic

Why were Hitler and the Nazi Party able to come to power in Weimar Germany?
What tactics did Hitler and the Nazi Party use to gain more power in Weimar Germany?
What were some tactics that Nazis used to control people in the 1930s?
What was the Holocaust?
What factors led to the Holocaust?

Lesson: Creating Historical Narratives: Economics, Politics, and Society in the 1920s

What is history from below?
How did the inflation crisis in the early 20s affect Germany and the German people?
What is identity and how did Europeans understand identity in the interwar period?

Lesson: After World War I: Ideologies, Empires, and Uncertainties

How did World War I affect Germany and the German people?
How did some artists in Germany respond to World War I?

Lesson: Interwar Germany: Exploring Google Earth

What was it like to work in the mines in the Ruhr region in the early 20th century?
What were the goals of the Bauhaus art movement?
What was the interwar gay rights movement in Berlin?
How did different groups of Jews understand and define themselves in interwar Europe?

Lesson: Analyzing Interwar Photomontage: Art and the Weimar Era

What can art reveal about history or current events?
How did some artists in Germany respond to World War I?
How do you go about analyzing a work of art?

Lesson: Maps and the Telling of History

Reading maps: How to analyze a map
Reading maps: What is a map?
Reading maps: Visual design elements

Lesson: Kristallnacht: Antisemitic Violence and Jewish Resistance

What were some tactics that Nazis used to control people in the 1930s?
How did antisemitism evolve and what role did it play in modern Europe?

Lesson: Unit Review: What Caused the Nazi Rise to Power?

Why were Hitler and the Nazi Party able to come to power in Weimar Germany?
What tactics did Hitler and the Nazi Party use to gain more power in Weimar Germany?
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