Sylabus
* Week 1: Welcome & Introductions
Course requirements and grading rubric
How to write an excerpt
Learning outcomes
* Week 2: Introduction: The Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia
Text:
Rhode, Gotthold: "The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia 1939-1945." In: A History of the Czechoslovak Republic 1918- 1948, edited by Victor S. Mamatey and Radomir Luza, Princeton 1973, 296-321.
* Week 3: German War Effort and Forced Labour
Text:
Crowhurst Patrick: Hitler and Czechoslovakia in World War II.
Domination and Retaliation, Oxford 2020, 151-194.
* Week 4: Society under German Occupation I
Text:
Bryant, Chad: Prague in black. Nazi Rule and Czech Nationalism, London 2007, 179-208.
* Week 5: The Holocaust in the Protectorate I
Text:
Heim, Susanne/ Löw, Andrea/ Pearce, Caroline (eds.): The Persecution and Murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany, 1933-1945, Volume 3, German Reich and Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia September 1939-September 1941, Munich 2020, 13-69
Homework: Select a source from the edition and prepare it for a short presentation, showing what historical approach might ideally be used to evaluate it.
* Week 6: The Holocaust in the Protectorate II
Presentation and discussion on sources
Source Analysis:
Heim, Susanne/ Löw, Andrea/ Pearce, Caroline (eds.): The Persecution and Murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany, 1933-1945, Volume 3, German Reich and Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia September 1939-September 1941, Munich 2020.
* Week 7: Local Administration and Everyday Life under German Occupation
Text:
Vondráček, Jan: “War Economy, Local Administration and Everyday Life under German Occupation in Bohemia and Moravia: New Approaches for Digital Humanities through Digitization, Databases and Digital Analysis”, in: Journal of East Central European Studies, 70 (3/2021), 439-465.
* Week 8: Society under German Occupation II
Text:
Bryant, Chad: The Language of Resistance? Czech Jokes and Joke-telling under Nazi Occupation, 1943-45, in: Journal of Contemporary History (2006/41), 133-151.
* Week 9: Woman in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Text:
Feinberg, Melissa: Dumplings and domesticity: Women, collaboration, and resistance in the protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. In: Gender and War in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe Indiana 2006, 95-110.
* Week 10: Consequences I: Economic Transformation
Text:
Balcar, Jaromír and Jaroslav Kučera: "System Transformation as a Consequence of the German Occupation? Czechoslovakia’s Path from the Nazi War Economy to Postwar Centralized Planned Economy." In: Jonas Scherner and Eugene White (eds.): Paying for Hitler’s War. The Consequences of Nazi Hegemony for Europe. New York 2016, 343-363.
* Week 11: Consequences II: Retribution
Text:
Frommer, Benjamin: National cleansing: retribution against Nazi collaborators in Postwar Czechoslovakia, Cambridge 2005, 33-63.
* Week 12: Final Discussion/Topics for Essay
Anotace
The historiography of the "Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia" has so far been dominated by a narrative that primarily perceives political actors, i.e. occupiers and perpetrators on the one hand, resistance organizations and the government in exile on the other. In the seminar, the focus will be directed beyond these dichotomies to structures of rule, administration and everyday life in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
For each session, there will be a selected text that approaches a specific topic using a particular historical method. By writing a short excerpt for each session, the foundation for a fruitful discussion will be created and at the same time, academic writing will be practiced.
The aim of this seminar is on the one hand to give an insight into the different aspects of the Protectorate and on the other hand to get familiar with different methodical approaches. In addition, academic reading as well as the clear and structured presentation of knowledge through excerpts and a presentation will be learned.