OK I am biased, but German History from 1919-1945 has to be one of the most fascinating and tragic periods in the history of mankind. And I don't make such claims idly.
The period is bookended by the loss of World War I and the total defeat of Germany in 1945 at the end of the World War II.
Just think someone born in Germany in the late Nineteenth Century would have lived in Imperial Germany, experienced the horrors of World War I, suffered the difficult postwar period including hyperinflation before being plunged into the depression. The period up to 1933 would have been hard enough, but then the person in question would have had to experience the barbarism of twelve years of Nazi Germany which would include further horrors in World War II. The person in question could then have found themselves in the German Democratic Republic (aka East Germany).
German Twentieth Century History is almost ridiculously rich and the period you are studying is the richest of all. I would honestly say studying the period is invaluable and will stay with you. However, some parts will have you thinking 'do I really want to be studying this'?
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