Matthew Lange

Date

Topic

1

January 28

Overview and Discussion of Paper Topics

2

February 11

1701­–1870: Prussia and Hohenzollern Dynasty
Topics: Frederick the Great

3

February 25

1871–1918: German Unification and Second Reich
Topics: Nationalism

4

March 10

1919–1932: Weimar Republic
Topics: Jewish Berlin

5

March 24

1933–1945: Third Reich and World War II
Topics: Wannsee Conference

6

April 7

1946–1989: Cold War and the Berlin Wall
Topics: Berlin Airlift and JFK Visit

7

April 21

1990–: Reunification and the “ Berlin Republic”
Topics: Multicultural Society

8

May 5

Seminar Papers Due
Oral Reports from Students
Pre-Departure Orientation with International Education

Fly from Chicago-O’Hare (ORD) to Berlin-Tegel (TXL)

Morning:
Arrive in Berlin
Check-in to hotel and get settled

Afternoon:
Unter den Linden

Group dinner

Morning:
The Story of Berlin Museum
Ku’damm
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Memorial Church

Afternoon:
Kaufhaus des Westens

Morning:
Walking Tour of Third Reich Sites
 
Afternoon:
Bundestag
Meetings with German politicians

Morning:
Berlin Cathedral
Nikolai Quarter (original area Berlin town center)
Alexanderplatz

Afternoon:
Boat trip on Spree

Potsdam (all day)
Sanssouci (Hohenzollern complex)
Cecilienhof (Site of Potsdam Conference)
Glienicke Bridge (site of Cold War spy exchanges)

Morning:
Schöneberg Rathaus (where JFK gave his Berliner speech)
Market at the Winterfeldplatz

Afternoon:
Berlin Wall Documentation Center

Morning:
Haus der Wannsee Konferenz (Villa where the Final Solution was planned)

Afternoon: FREE TIME
Suggestions for the southwest suburbs:
Grunewald
Grunewald Tower (a.k.a. Kaiser-Wilhelm Tower)
Teufelsberg
Track 17 of the S-Bahnhof Grunewald (site of Jewish deportation)

Morning:
Walking Tour of Jewish Berlin 10:00

Afternoon:
German Historical Museum
Hackesche Höfe

Morning:
Museum Island – Pergamon Museum (Pergamon Altar, Ishtar Gate), Old National Gallery (19th century), Antiquities Museum (Egyptian collection with bust of Nefertiti)

Afternoon:
Potsdamer Platz
Topographie des Terrors (Documentation site of Gestapo and SS Security Service HQ)
Checkpoint Charlie (option of Checkpoint Charlie Museum)

Morning:
Gedenkstätte Normannenstraße (GDR State Police Museum)

Afternoon:
East Side Gallery (longest remain section of Berlin Wall)

Oranienburg (all day)
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp - site of the conterfeiters camp as seen in the 2008 Oscar winning foreign-language film Die Fälscher (The Counterfeiters, 2007)

FREE DAY TO EXPLORE ON YOUR OWN:

Suggestions (among many options!):
Jewish Museum
Charlottenburg Palace
Olympic Stadium (site of 1936 Olympics and 2006 World Cup final)
German Resistance Memorial Center
DDR Museum
Allied Museum (site of the authentic Checkpoint Charlie guard house)
Ploetzensee Prison (site where resistance members were executed including WI native Mildred Fish-Harnack)

Group dinner

Fly from TXL to ORD