HIST 103-02, Introduction to Historical Investigation: Why Hitler?, Spring 1999

Abstract

I. To study in detail the events that led from the end of the First World War to the appointment of Hitler as Chancellor in Germany and the subsequent moves made by Hitler to convert his position into a dictatorship. II. To investigate critically some of the ways that historians have attempted to explain this course of events. III. To write a critical review of an assigned work of historical literature. IV. To learn the techniques of assembling and evaluating sources, both secondary and primary. V. To write an original historical essay dealing with some aspect of Hitler's rise and consolidation of power.