The course will examine Germany's history over the last 100 years. It will examine Germany's first experiment in democracy, the Weimar Republic (1919-1933), and the Third Reich and the Holocaust (1933-1945), German division, democracy and communist dictatorship (1945-1990), and then reunited Germany (1990-present). The course will place these era into the larger context of the struggle between freedom and unity in Germany and Germany's place in Europe and the world.