CANCELLED due to inclement weather - to be rescheduled
Dr. Gerhard L. Weinberg, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018
7:30 p.m.
Belk Library and Information Commons, Room 114
This event is free of charge and open to the public.
Dr. Gerhard L. Weinberg, the William Rand Kenan, Jr., Emeritus Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will give a public lecture entitled “Adolf Hitler and the United States: Views, Plans and Policies and the ‘Jewish Question.’”
Weinberg is an internationally acclaimed diplomat and Holocaust historian. Among his many influential books and articles are “A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II” and “Hitler's Foreign Policy, 1933-1939: The Road to World War II.” Weinberg also found the book manuscript written by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler after “Mein Kampf” in the massive files confiscated by U.S. troops at the end of the war in Europe.
His many awards include the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize, the Society for Military History’s lifetime achievement award, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship and the Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for lifetime excellence in military writing. He served as president of the German Studies Association and taught at the University of Bonn, Germany as a Fulbright professor. He will also serve as the keynote speaker of the “Future of Holocaust Testimony” conference co-organized by Appalachian’s Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies in Akko, Israel in March 2019.
Born in Hanover, Germany, during the waning years of the Weimar Republic, Weinberg escaped Nazi Germany on a Kindertransport to England in 1938. His father, a judge whom the new Nazi rulers removed from his position after their seizure of power due to his Jewishness, narrowly escaped imprisonment in a concentration camp. After the family managed to reunite in England, they succeeded in obtaining visas and coming to the United States. Weinberg served in the U.S. Army in 1946-47 and then worked as a research analyst in the war documentation project in Alexandria, V.A. He started his remarkable academic career at the University of Chicago in the mid-1950s.
For more information, contact the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies at holocaust@appstate.edu or call 828.262.2311. Organized by the Center, the visit is co-sponsored by Appalachian’s Departments of History and Languages, Literatures and Cultures, as well as, the German Studies Program, Office of Multicultural Student Development, the local chapter of Hillel, the Peace and Genocide Education Club and the Temple of the High Country.
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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.
About the Department of History
The Department of History offers a broad curriculum in local, national, regional and world history at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, which encourages history majors to develop a comprehensive approach to human problems. The study of history is an essential part of a liberal arts education and offers valuable preparation for many careers, such as law, journalism, public history, public service and business, as well as in teaching and the advanced discipline of history. Learn more at https://history.appstate.edu.
About the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
The Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures offers courses that enhance students’ understanding of other cultures and languages as well as their own, making them prepared for lifelong learning in a multicultural world. Learn more at https://dllc.appstate.edu.
August 29, 2018
Andrew Scott
BOONE, N.C.
Adolf Hitler and the United States: Views, Plans and Policies and the ‘Jewish Question’ with Dr. Gerhard L. Weinberg, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Adolf Hitler and the United States: Views, Plans and Policies and the ‘Jewish Question’ with Dr. Gerhard L. Weinberg, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill