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

(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. If you can print and take notes on the selections from Mein Kampf and take notes on Triumph des Willens and bring them to class, that would be helpful. Feel free to skim the selections from Mein Kampf if you're short on time.

For the text 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 actions and legacy of the Nazi Party?

Required:

Triumph des Willens (The Triumph of the Will) (1935)

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

or

https://archive.org/details/b3001024x/mode/2up

Optional:

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)