Readings for What is Fascism? Session 3: Germany (St. Paul)

(Leni Riefenstahl on the right, director of Triumph of the Will)

For the third session of "What is Fascism?" we will be focusing on Germany. Please find below the materials you should prepare before class. Nota bene, I have made the reading of selections from Mein Kampf optional. If you can print the "25 Points" and take notes on Triumph of the Will and bring them to class, that would be helpful.

For the document and film, think about the messages being sent by both. How do they portray the ideals and goals of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP, National Socialist German Workers' Party)? What do they include or exclude based on our knowledge of the legacy of the Nazi Party?

Presentations of the "25 Point Program" (1920):

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-party-platform

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/1708-ps.asp

https://www.vaholocaust.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/25Points.pdf

https://hitler.org/writings/programme/

The Triumph of the WIll (1935)

Optional:

Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (My Struggle or My Battle), v.1. ch. XI, v.2. ch. II (1925)

Adolf Hitler, Proclamation to the German Nation (1933)

Hans Steinhoff, Hitlerjunge Quex (Hitler Youth Quex, aka Our Flags Lead Us Forward)

(1933)

Franz Wenzler, Hans Westmar (1933)

Hayao Miyazaki, Tigers in the Mud (1998)