HIST 391: Looting Europe: How Hitler Stole the Continent's Art

While studying in Munich; Stuttgart; and Heidenheim; learn about German history through the art; monuments; and architecture Nazi leader Adolf Hitler revered; despised; and looted. At the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart; view the paintings of German First World War soldier Otto Dix; branded “degenerate” and banned by the Nazis. Experience the medieval town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber; touted by Hitler as a Germanic exemplar. In Munich; walk through the Alte Pinakothek and other art museums that Hitler frequented in his early years; then trace the steps of those persecuted and interned by the Nazis at the Dachau Concentration Camp. Finally; learn about the liberation of prisoners from Hitler’s camps; stolen artworks; and their postwar fate in Heidenheim; where a Jewish Displaced Persons camp was established by the U.S. Army. (Offered: Allen/Winter)