HISTORY 3234 - Your Papers,Please? Technocracy,Technology,and Social Control in Nazi Germany,the DDR,and the BRD

Institution:

Bard College

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Description:

GIS, STS This research course addresses the coercive and violent powers of the modern state as they were refined through technologies and techniques in National Socialist Germany, and then alternately condemned and utilized in the two German nations of the (East) German Democratic Republic (DDR) and the (West) German Federal Republic (BRD). Topics range from the development of new techniques of propaganda to the manipulation of social technologies such as identification papers, the census, racial pseudoscience, and, most horrifically, the concentration camp system.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Historical Version(s):

Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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