UHC
Western European History II
The Age of Extremes
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"In Zurich in 1915, losing
interest in the slaughterhouse of the world war, we turned to art.
While the thunder of the batteries rumbled in the distance, we pasted,
we recited, we versified, we sang with all our soul. We searched
for an elementary art that would, we thought, save humanity from the
furious folly of these times. We aspired to a new order that might
restore the balance between heaven and hell." Hugo Ball
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Week #11
March 29: We will then begin to deal with the breakdown of Western Society and the problems of the inter-war years which help bring about the rise of Communist, Nazi and Fascist states. We will also begin to deal with Germany in the inter-war period and why the Nazis were able to rise to power.
Read for 5 April:
Merriman pp. 955-989
Berghahn pp. 58-87
Read for next Week
Watch Merriman's Lecture on Stalinism:
Read for 7 April
March 31
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We will pay a visit to "Cabaret Voltaire"
in Zurich in 1916.
We
will meet Hugo Ball,
Emmy Hennings,
Tristan Tzara,
Johnny Rotten and
Virginia Woolf,
among others and you will participate in a performance with them.