Monday, Feb. 12, Professor Thomas Kühne, the Strassler Chair in the Study of Holocaust History and the Director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University, Massachusetts will give a public lecture entitled “‘The Murderers Are Among Us’: Images of and Inquiries into Holocaust Perpetrators since the Third Reich.” This free lecture, open to the public will take place at 7 p.m. in Belk Library and Information Commons, Room 114 at Appalachian State University.
Professor Kühne is an award-winning prolific scholar of German, Holocaust, Military and Gender Studies. His essay collection on the history of masculinities in modern Germany, Men’s History—Gender History from 1996 (published in German) helped to establish this field in Central European history and stimulated a series of innovative gender studies.
He also contributed to a flourishing of the new cultural military history (What is Military History, 2000, co-edited with Benjamin Ziemann, in German) and served as chair of the German Historical Peace Research Association from 1998 until 2001. Professor Kühne is the author of many other publications in these fields, most notably his study in Belonging and Genocide, Hitler’s Community, 1918-1945 (Yale University Press 2010) on how the Nazis used the human desire for community to build a genocidal society and his monograph on “The Rise and Fall of Comradeship” (Cambridge University Press, 2017) on the myth of comradeship and its shaping of the experiences and actions of German soldiers in the Second World War.
Currently, Professor Kühne also serves as Director of Holocaust and Genocide Graduate Studies at Clark University, which is home to the only PhD Program exclusively focused on Holocaust Studies in the U.S.
For more information, contact the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies at holocaust@appstate.edu or call 828.262.2311. This event is organized by the Center and the visit is co-sponsored by Appalachian’s Departments of Cultural, Gender and Global Studies, History, as well as the German Studies Program, Appalachian’s Honors College, the Office of Multicultural Student Development, the Temple of the High Country, the local chapter of Hillel, the Peace and Genocide Education Club and the North Carolina German Studies Seminar and Workshop Series, UNC-Chapel Hill.
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About the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies
Appalachian State University's Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies was founded in 2002 to develop new educational opportunities for students, teachers, and the community. Located administratively within the College of Arts and Sciences, the Center seeks to strengthen tolerance, understanding, and remembrance by increasing the knowledge of Jewish culture and history, teaching the history and meaning of the Holocaust, and utilizing these experiences to explore peaceful avenues for human improvement and the prevention of further genocides. The Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies is an associate institutional member of the Association of Jewish Studies, a member of the Association of Holocaust Organizations and of the North Carolina Consortium of Jewish Studies.
The Murderers Are Among Us: Images of and Inquiries into Holocaust Perpetrators Since the Third Reich
The Murderers Are Among Us: Images of and Inquiries into Holocaust Perpetrators Since the Third Reich