GER 1791 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Wandervogel, Kurt Schwitters, Hitler Youth

• School: York University
• Department: German
• Course: GER 1791
• Professor: Diana Spokiene

Document Summary

Fairy tales express struggles people faced during the first part of the 20th century. 1871 the first unification of germany. 1871-1918 germany becomes a colonial power. 1890-1918 industrialization and urbanization in germany. 1920 1930 the (cid:862)golde(cid:374) t(cid:449)e(cid:374)ties(cid:863) 1933 adolf hitler becomes the chancellor of germany. Used their colonial power to create concentration camps which they used during their. Weimar republic used to represent completely new structure of society. Between 1871-1890, the german population grew from 41 million to 65 million. By 1900 about 1/3 of the german population held jobs in the industrial sector. In berlin alone about 30,000 living quarters qualified as overcrowded. In 1907 the social democratic party became the strongest force in popular vote. The upper bourgeoisie and the german nobility evolved in antagonism to the working class. The military played an important role in the alliance between the upper middle class and the aristocracy. Ger(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:455) (cid:271)e(cid:272)a(cid:373)e a (cid:272)olo(cid:374)ial po(cid:449)er: ger(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:455)(cid:859)s (cid:272)o(cid:374)fro(cid:374)tatio(cid:374) (cid:449)ith british i(cid:374)terests.