1. Week 5 – Fascism and Its Consequences
Ben Van Overmeire
Making of the Modern World 15
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

2. Announcement “Force Majeure” by Helen and Newton Mayer Harrison
Tuesday, May 6th, 2014
4-6pm
Sumner Auditorium, SIO

3. Today Submit Prospectuses Hand back Midterms (end of class)
Talk about the Holocaust
How does Fascism lead to mass murder?
What does Celan’s poem tell us about the Holocaust?

4. Prospectus: What to Submit
3-5 pages (without counting the works cited)
A List of Works Cited
Prospectus Template
Photocopies
Graded RQ Assignment
(Optional) Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages
Note:
all MLA and style sheet rules now apply
Submit in a folder

5. Midterm Average: B Problems: Give approximate time with passage IDs
Significance of passage as it relates to liberalism, nationalism.

6. W.H Auden’s “The Citizen”
What kind of person does this poem portray?
Would he and Prufrock have gotten along? Why not?
How does this relate to Lippman’s diagnosis of modern democracy?

7. The Rise of Fascism
Drawing on lecture, name different reasons why across Europe totalitarian government gained power?
What is the psychological appeal of Fascism?

8. The Appeal of Belonging to the Herd: Triumph of the Will (1935)
Triumph of the Will (German: Triumph des Willens) is a 1935 film made by Leni Riefenstahl. It chronicles the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg, which was attended by more than 700,000 Nazi supporters. The film contains excerpts from speeches given by various Nazi leaders at the Congress, including portions of speeches by Adolf Hitler, interspersed with footage of massed party members. Hitler commissioned the film and served as an unofficial executive producer; his name appears in the opening titles. The overriding theme of the film is the return of Germany as a great power, with Hitler as the True German Leader who will bring glory to the nation. As you watch the first few minutes and a short speech, write down your impressions in single words.

9. Paul Celan – “Death Fugue”
What does the title mean?
What do you think the “black milk of daybreak” means?
Why do you think the poem keeps repeating the names of two women, namely “Margareta" and “Shulamite?”

10. Next week Submit Prospectus
Read Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem and answer the following:
What is Arendt’s thesis?
What is the significance of her thesis?