Hitler's American Models: What the United States Taught the Nazis with Dr. Pete Kakel, A&S '03 (MLA)

Course Title: Hitler’s American Models: What the United States Taught the Nazis

Instructor:  Dr. Pete Kakel, A&S '03 (MLA)

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October 28, 2024 - December 02, 2024 (6 Sessions)  

Monday,  10:00AM ET - 12:00PM ET  

Virtual via Zoom 

Course Description: As historians are beginning to show, Adolf Hitler and other Nazis often drew on American precedents for inspiration and ideas to guide their thinking and policy decisions. This course will focus on recent research that addresses a number of disturbing questions: (1) How were Hitler’s ideological obsessions and genocidal fantasies influenced by American historical precedent? (2) How did the precedent of American race laws and practices influence Nazi racial laws? (3) How did American treatment of minorities inform discriminatory measures in Nazi Germany? (4) How did the early 20th century American eugenics movement shape Nazi genocidal programs of sterilization and euthanasia? (5) How did American westward expansion and its brutal treatment of American Indians guide Nazi empire-building? (6) How does this disturbing and unsettling history echo in today’s world? This course seeks to provide an illuminating and unsettling window onto Nazi crimes, as well as the American past and present.

Course Objectives:
1.    Show how Hitler and other Nazis often drew on American precedents for inspiration and ideas to guide their thinking and policy decisions;
2.    Provide an illuminating window onto Nazi crimes; and
3.    Provide an unsettling window onto the American past and present.

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