Lectures Notes

The Spanish Civil War 1936-39

Rapid polarization of politics in early-to-mid 1930s

The Nature of the Third Reich

How the Third Reich was Ruled

Nazi Foreign Policy

Nazi Foreign Policy Aims.

Imperial Germany 1890-1914

Post-1918 nostalgia; Nazi contempt; return of nostalgia after 1945.

Why Did Germany Lose the Second World War?

What Went Wrong?

Corruption and Plunder in the Third Reich

Third Reich not just a dictatorship, also a Kleptocracy.

Chamberlain and Appeasement: the Differing Views of Historians

Richard J Evans, Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge

Autarky: Fantasy or Reality?