The impact on Germany

Prof. Peter Hayes, Prof. Shulamit Volkov

Of particular interest when dealing with the aftermath of the war is the case of Germany, a country in which Nazism would rise to become the dominant force, less than two decades later.

What effect did WWI have on the ability to “resist” antisemitism in the war’s aftermath?

References

• Aschheim, Steven E., In Times of Crisis: Essays on European Culture, Germans, and Jews (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001).

• Chickering, Rodger, Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914–1918 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

• Hayes, Peter, Why?: Explaining the Holocaust (New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2017).

• Sadler, Mark R. and George S. Vascik, The Stab-in-the-Back Myth and the Fall of the Weimar Republic: A History in Documents and Visual Sources (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016).

• Volkov, Shulamit, Germans, Jews, and Antisemites: Trials in Emancipation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).