Acting Out Nazi Germany
A Role-Play Simulation For The History Classroom
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23235128 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William G Monahan (Eastern Oregon University, corresponding author), W Gregory Monahan |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 74-85 |
| Publication date | 2002-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Teaching History A Journal of Methods (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0730-1383 • E-ISSN: 2766-6174 |
| Publisher | Ball State University Libraries (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.33043/th.27.2.74-85 |
| OpenAlex | W4396541234 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
The scene I confronted when I arrived in the classroom on that third day of the simulation unnerved me. Festooned all over the walls, the blackboard, the backs of chairs, and the door through which I had entered were photocopied political posters, some in full color, most in black and white, all sporting an array of frightening images from Germany in 1932: swastikas, hammers and sickles, pictures of Adolf Hitler and Karl Marx, a Socialist Party poster with a worker crucified upon a devilish swastika, invocations to vote for this candidate or that one, threats of dire consequences should one or the other side prevail. I quickly closed the windowed door and blocked it, fearful that a colleague or a student might happen by, glance in, and wonder what I was teaching these students. Students moved me out of the way and papered the door window with even more posters, and I confronted the unforeseen consequence of an improvisation. On a whim, at the end of the first day of a three-day simulation of the German Reichstag election of 1932, I had promised an extra 300 votes to whichever party put up the most posters on the third day, and my students had responded with ferocious energy! Well, I thought, that idea was obviously going to require a little bit of tweaking.1
Media studies · Nazism · Political science · Politics · Project commissioning · Publishing · Sociology · European history and politics · German History and Society · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law
| Citations per year | 0.31 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |