Class Notes for 6 November 2018

• Love and Public Morality and Prosperity:
  • 199-200 [sensations, Baker, party]; 257-9 [more on parties]; and conclusion at 259. And 284 narcissistic self-indulgence.
  • Love 257-9
  • How was it funded: 278-82.

Violence: 271

Ch 11 Science and Universities

• Heisenberg, relativity 214-8
• Students:221-4 Wandervögel 227; political orientation 228

Nostalgia: lehrplan; jn; jk. Alt Heidelberg

Ch 12 Theater: Innovation and pushback. berlin-images11&12.

• Sample: Brecht poem
• 248 [10] - also new models for theater and riots
• 250-52 Epic / proletarian theater

Ch 13. Film...the story of Blue Angel.

• words of the songs.
• Note the words on p.287. 'to be humiliated was for him ecstasy'
• Other film themes 294-5

Ch 14. The Depression [berlin-images12&13&14.htm]

• 302-304 the dilemma==>degeneracy 306
• lack of government 306. Goebbels and Hitler 312-3
• election...middle loses 316-7 ==> violence and degeneracy 319, 322
• Im Westen nichts neues: 327.

Ch 15 berlin-images14-16-2015.htm

The movie M:"I couldn't control myself!" and the challenge to law and order

The main theme here is the descent into brutality: [331] Note the challenge of the words "They [the Weimar police] unlike their successors regarded murder as murder, even if they did not punish the right wing perpetrators. But ...the Serial Murders: what do you make of the cases of

• Denke [who made several barrels of smoked human flesh, at least 30 victims, and sold to consumers],
• Grossman [I couldn't help myself] with16 victims, young girls and meat sold to butchers]and
• Haarmann with at least 26victims; who liked boys, and to "tear out the victim's throat with his teeth" [335] in a mindless rage. All characterized otherwise by appearing to be "normal"

[337]Hitler: "Brutality is respected. The people need some wholesome fear. They want to fear something. They want someone to frighten them and make them sudderingly submissive...they need something that will give them the thrill of horror.

• The Ringvereine: officially to help with rehabilitation of criminals, to keep suspicious under surveillance [339]
• In M the criminals and police cooperate, perceived as equal value
• Violence was commonplace, accepted as part of everyday life [340] implications? De-humanizing effect
• the decline of law and order. even before the Nazis turned criminality into a system of government, there were instances of the Weimar authorities turning the law against the law-abiding