Students will investigate evidence and conduct source-based inquiries on various topics 
Students will learn about the Weimar Constitution, its strengths and weaknesses
Students will investigate the nature of a one-party, totalitarian state.
Students will learn about Germany from many different perspectives. 
Students will learn about the impact of the Paris Peace Conference 1919
Students will learn about the establishment of Weimar Germany
Students will learn about the challenges facing Weimar Germany
Students will learn about the impact of the World Depression on Weimar Germany
Students will learn about the rise of the National Socialist Party in Germany
Students will learn about the rise of political extremism in Weimar Germany
Students will learn how Adolf Hitler rose to power
Students will learn about the National Socialist regime 1933-39
Students will learn about German Foreign Policy 1933-39
Students will learn about the causes of the Second World War
Students will learn about The Second World War and its aftermath.

I have taught this subject for the past 30 years in both private and public school settings to prepare students for challenging external examinations (I.B./GCSE/A-Level/AP) - See my profile page for further details. 

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Secondary School Textbooks/University Textbooks

SHP Germany In-Depth Hodder 
Eduqas GCSE History: Germany in transition, 1919-39
Germany 1918-1945: A depth study Greg Lacey, Keith Shepherd
German History, 1770-1866 (Oxford History of Modern Europe)  by  James Sheehan
A History Of Germany 1918 - 2020: The Divided Nation by Mary Fulbrook

Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer

The Demise of the Weimar Republic

    Feldman, Gerald D. The Great Disorder: Politics, Economics, and Society in the German Inflation, 1914-1924. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
    James, Harold. The German Slump: Politics and Economics, 1924-1936. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986.
    Nicholls, Anthony James. Weimar and the Rise of Hitler. 4th ed. Houndmills: Macmillan Press, 2000.
    Sneeringer, Julia. Winning Women’s Votes: Propaganda and Politics in Weimar Germany. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2002.
    Turner, Henry Ashby. Hitler’s Thirty Days to Power: January 1933. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1996.

 
Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP)

    Evans, Richard J. The Coming of the Third Reich. New York: Penguin Press, 2004.
    Hamann, Brigitte. Hitler’s Vienna: A Dictator’s Apprenticeship. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
    Jones, Larry Eugene. German Liberalism and the Dissolution of the Weimar Party System, 1918-1933. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
    Kershaw, Ian. Hitler. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999.

Policies of the Third Reich

    Evans, Richard J. The Third Reich in Power, 1933-1939. New York: Penguin Press, 2005.
    Hayes, Peter. Industry and Ideology: IG Farben in the Nazi Era. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
    Helmreich, Ernst Christian. The German Churches Under Hitler: Background, Struggle and Epilogue. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1980.
    Leitz, Christian. Nazi Foreign Policy, 1933-1941: The Road to Global War. London: Routledge, 2004.
    Mason, Timothy W., and Jane Caplan. Social Policy in the Third Reich: The Working Class and the National Community. Providence: Berg, 1993.
    Overy, R. J. War and Economy in the Third Reich. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.
    Schoenbaum, David. Hitler’s Social Revolution; Class and Status in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939. Garden City: Doubleday, 1966.
    Shore, Zachary. What Hitler Knew: The Battle for Information in Nazi Foreign Policy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
    Tooze, J. Adam. The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy. New York: Viking, 2007.
    Watt, Donald Cameron. How War Came: The Immediate Origins of the Second World War, 1938-1939. New York: Pantheon Books, 1989.
    Weinberg, Gerhard L. The Foreign Policy of Hitler’s Germany: Starting World War II, 1937-1939. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.

The Holocaust

    Bergen, Doris L. War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust. 2nd ed. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2009.
    Bloxham, Donald. Genocide on Trial: War Crimes Trials and the Formation of Holocaust History and Memory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
    Chamberlin, Brewster S., Marcia Feldman, and Robert H. Abzug. The Liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps 1945: Eyewitness Accounts of the Liberators. Washington, D.C.: United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 1987.
    Goodell, Stephen, Kevin A. Mahoney, and Sybil Milton. 1945: The Year of Liberation. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1995.
    Hilberg, Raul. The Destruction of the European Jews. Rev. ed. 3 vols. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1985.
    Mikhman, Dan. Holocaust Historiography: A Jewish Perspective: Conceptualizations, Terminology, Approaches, and Fundamental Issues. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2003.
    Sofsky, Wolfgang. The Order of Terror: The Concentration Camp. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.
    Stone, Dan. The Historiography of the Holocaust. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
    Taylor, Telford. The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A Personal Memoir. New York: Knopf, 1992.

Culture and Society in the Third Reich

    Adam, Peter. Art of the Third Reich. New York: H.N Abrams, 1992.
    Baird, Jay W. Hitler’s War Poets: Literature and Politics in the Third Reich. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
    Bergmeier, H. J. P. and Rainer E. Lotz. Hitler’s Airwaves: The Inside Story of Nazi Radio Broadcasting and Propaganda Swing. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
    Boswell, Matthew. Holocaust Impiety in Literature, Popular Music and Film. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
    Currid, Brian. A National Acoustics Music and Mass Publicity in Weimar and Nazi Germany. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
    Etlin, Richard A. Art, Culture, and Media Under the Third Reich. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
    Karina, Lilian and Marion Kant. Hitler’s Dancers: German Modern Dance and the Third Reich. New York: Berghahn Books, 2003.
    Maier-Katkin, Birgit. Silence and Acts of Memory: A Postwar Discourse on Literature, History, Anna Seghers, and Women in the Third Reich. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2007.
    Petropoulos, Jonathan. The Faustian Bargain: The Art World in Nazi Germany. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
    Schmitz, Helmut. German Culture and the Uncomfortable Past: Representations of National Socialism in Contemporary Germanic Literature. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001.
    Schoeps, Karl-Heinz. Literature and Film in the Third Reich. Rochester: Camden House, 2004.
    Stibbe, Matthew. Women in the Third Reich. London: Arnold, 2003.