An Introduction to Open Educational Resources – Part 3 of 3
Why are the humanities slower in adopting OERs? How will Public German Studies help change that?
An Introduction to Open Educational Resources – Part 2 of 3
Open educational resources bring many benefits to educators and learners alike.
An Introduction to Open Educational Resources – Part 1 of 3
OERs are teaching materials - e.g. textbooks, lecture materials, learning activities, assessments - that have been made available free of charge to others for them to use, adapt, and redistribute.
Module 10: Neo-Nazism
Neo-Nazism in Germany Why are we talking about neo-Nazism? Because we have to. In August, 2017, with the alt-right and white supremacist demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia, it became clear that Nazism has not gone away, it has just morphed into a new form for a new age. For
Module 9: Curiosity
Curiosity This module is called "Curiosity." Why? One of the changes that has come to the Vergangenheitsbewältigung process in Germany is a greater openness to the Nazi past as history. By this I mean that while the process of coming to terms with the past in the
Module 8: Guilt
ProfComment: Vergangenheitsbewältigung Well, that's a big word. It means "mastering the past" or "coming to terms with the past." And since the Second World War, German society has been doing just that, coming to terms with the legacy of Nazism. As you can imagine, the end of the
Module 7: Jewish Resistance
Jewish Resistance The Third Reich identified a number of people, or groups of people, as enemies. Nikolaus Wachsmann wrote in an essay called "The Politics of Exclusion" that there were three main enemies who were subject to the policy of exclusion from the state: political opposition; social
Module 6: German Resistance
Irmgard Keun At the end of the Weimar Republic the writing of Irmgard Keun gained a fair amount of attention. Her novels about the lives of young women trying to make a go of it in the wild Berlin of the 1920s heralded an authentic new
Module 5: Approved Culture
Approved Art The Great German Art Exhibition was an annual affair intended to promote German art to the public. Read this speech by Hitler given at the opening of the first exhibition: Hitler speech at opening of the Great German Art Exhibition Now, look at some of the
Module 4: Decadent Culture
Burning Books The Holocaust Encyclopedia puts it well: "The burning of books under the Nazi regime on May 10, 1933, is perhaps the most famous book burning in history." The first two articles below explain how the event came to be and what happened. The third article broadens