The Third Reich 2

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• perform electronic bibliographical searches to support your essay work in relevant historical databases
• argue persuasively in informal oral and written exercises and engage with the opinions of others
• collate and analyse primary and secondary information to produce coherent and relevant essay work
• identify extracts from primary sources and draw out the methodological problems in their use as well as their significance to the course

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• gather information and synthesise it
• communicate effectively in group discussions, both as a leader of those discussions and a respondent
• display effective time management in planning and completing tasks set.
• co-operate with others in identifying and solving problems

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• reflect on contentious issues in modern German history
• analyse the relevance of a range of primary sources, with regard to the conditions in which they were produced
• identify and engage critically with the major historiographical texts on the subject

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• The connections between these two processes
• The reasons why some sections of German society chose to resist the Third Reich
• The reasons why German foreign policy became ever more aggressive after 1933
• The processes by which persecution of the Jews and other stigmatised groups became ever more radical after 1933

This unit focuses on the foreign policy of the Third Reich between 1933 and 1945, on the

development of the SS and terror apparatus; on the persecution of the Jews from 1933 onwards;

on the occupation of Europe; on the Holocaust, and on resistance from the left and right.

Teaching methods include

primarily, two double sessions per week in seminar format with a variety of

tutorial input

close analysis of a variety of primary sources and scholarly literature

Learning activities include

presentations by course members and their discussion by the group

plenary discussions chaired by the tutor and members of the seminar group.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.