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HIST286: Restless Nation: Germany in the 20th Century

Few countries' histories have been more tumultuous than that of modern Germany.  Wars of liberation, revolution, rapid industrialisation, varied federal traditions, unification through 'blood and iron', the launching of and defeat in two world wars, responsibility for war crimes and genocide on an unparalleled scale, foreign occupation and re-education, and political division for four decades have made German history, and the ways in which Germans have remembered it, contentious and of broad public concern.  

This course examines German history in the 20th century with a threefold aim:

• to engage with the main strands of recent German history and some of the most contentious and disputed aspects of that history.
• To consider the relationship between histories as experienced and histories as presented publicly.
• To apply and test ideas about 'heritage', 'sites of memory' and 'coming to terms with the past' (Vergangenheitsbewältigung) in the most challenging of contexts.

For further information on HIST286 visit the Lancaster University Online Courses Handbook.

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