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Weimar Germany

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

A SUCCESSFUL IB HISTORY STUDENT CAN....

WEIMAR GERMANY

JAZZ, ART, DANCING GIRLS AND THE SPECTRE OF NAZISM

NEUE SACHLICHKEIT

NEW OBJECTIVITY MOVEMENT OR EXPRESSIONISM

OTTO DIX

BIG CITY 1927-8

GEORGE GROSZ

PILLARS OF SOCIETY

LITERATURE

CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD, ERIC MARIA REMARQUE
Photo by edtechie99

LITERATURE

CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD, ERIC MARIA REMARQUE
Photo by edtechie99

FILM

DER BLAUE ENGEL, FEATURING MARLENE DIETRICH

BERLIN

CABARET AND JAZZ

MADE UP BOYS AND WOMEN IN MEN'S CLOTHES

BERLIN

UNITY VALKYRIE MITFORD

FIRST EXPERIENCE OF A NAZI PARTY RALLY

ASSESSMENT OF WEIMAR

  • Remarkable for the way it emerged from a catastrophe
  • More remarkable for the way it vanished into a still greater catastrophe
  • The world of Weimar represents modernism in its most vivid manifestation

1919-1933

Even stories with a sorry ending have their moments of glory, great and small, and it is proper to view these moments, not in the light of their ending, but in their own light: their reality is no less powerful than the reality of their ending. Thomas Mann Joseph and seine Bruder
Even stories with a sorry ending have their moments of glory, great and small, and it is proper to view these moments, not in the light of their ending, but in their own light: their reality is no less powerful than the reality of their ending.

Thomas Mann
Joseph and seine Bruder