HIST 128
Protest after Fascism: Youth, Revolution, and Protest in 1960s West Germany Fall 2022
Division II Writing Skills Difference, Power, and Equity
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The 1960s was a decade of youth and protest. University students in Paris, Belgrade, and Dar es Salaam took to the streets to call for political, economic, and social transformation. This first-year seminar dives into this decade of heady revolutionary fervor, by focusing on the stakes of political protest in postwar West Germany. It evaluates how West Germans formulated their political protests while living in a post-totalitarian and post-genocidal society and considers the extent to which West Germans youths — despite operating in the international milieu of the “Global Sixties” — displayed a specifically national set of anxieties. Students can expect to gain an introduction to postwar German history, as well as experience working with primary sources.