Nazism and World Order

Adolf Hitler did not only seek to remake German society: he sought to remake world order. This course analyzes Nazi Germany as an international problem and challenge. Topics include Nazism's origins in World War One and the peace of 1919, its critique of liberal internationalism, its rival vision of international order based on race, Lebensraum, and imperial "great blocs," fascist internationalism, the Nazi occupation of Europe, the waging of global war, the Holocaust, and the international repercussions of Nazi defeat including the Nuremberg Trials, crimes like genocide, and memory politics.