FALL
SEMESTER 2016
HISTORY
300/012: HISTORY OF FASCISM
Professor
E. A. Sanabria
Second
Writing Assignment
You
are to write a 5-7 page, double-spaced, printed, essay due in class on Tuesday,
October, 25th. Remember that
late papers will be docked a third of a grade for each day they are late, so a
paper that would have been an A- if turned in on time, will garner a B+ if
turned in on the 28th, and a B- if turned in on the 29th, and so on. Add a bibliography page to the back of your
essay.
Your
essay is based on your reading and response primarily
to the primary documents in the Griffin and Moeller collections of sources on
Nazi Germany. These are, of course, primary documents or first-hand sources
that are produced at the time of an even or an era, and written by direct
participants or observers. You may
choose several documents in the book in order to select have sources rich
enough to sustain an entire essay. Choose one (1) of the following prompts for your paper:
A.) More so than just about any
other fascist movement or phenomenon, German Nazism
seemed anchored in its anti-Semitic and racialist understandings.
Prepare an essay in
which you make and defend a claim about what how
anti-Semitism and racism/racialist
thinking infiltrated many (one could say all) facets of
Nazism, including but not limited
to their criticism of Liberalism and the Weimar
Republic, women and children, the
concept of “Social Death.”
B.) Prepare an essay in which you
make and defend a claim about what Nazis saw
as the appropriate roles for women in society,
especially juxtaposed against the “new woman” of the interwar period, and if or
how Nazi ideology attracted German women.
C.) Prepare an essay in which you
make and defend a claim about whether the Nazi regime
was pronatalist or anti-natalist.
Explore both the why and how the Nazi state/regime
either (or both) encouraged Germans having more births
or/and prevented some
Germans from having children.
Documentation
Style
Because
this is an upper division History course, I would be remiss if I didn’t require
you to document your sources using the style used by the historians’
profession: Chicago Manual of Style footnotes or endnotes. In general, the first citation of a book or
article should be complete. For example:
²
Subsequent
references to that book can look like this:
³Payne, 22.
Here’s
an example of an article citation:
¹Bruce
Any
library reference section should have a copy of the Chicago Manual of Style
for you to consult, or simply Google “Chicago Manual of Style” to find examples
of
Because
so many of our primary sources come in edited collections, here’s an example of
how to cite from the
³Joseph
Goebbels, “Christ-Socialism,” in Fascism,
Roger Griffin, ed. (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1995), 119-120.
Or
from Stone:
³Benito
Mussolini, “The Twentieth Century:
Inauguration Speech Given at the Opening of the First Novecento
Exhibition. February 15, 1926,” in The
Fascist Revolution in Italy: A Brief
History with Documents, Marla Stone, ed. (Boston: Bedford St. Martin’s, 2013), 129.