Monday, March 9th, 2009 Kristallnacht as Experienced Then and as Seen Now/ Lecture by Gerhard Weinberg

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Monday, March 9, 20094:30PM - 5:30PMThe Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, 'Munk Centre For International Studies - 1 Devonshire Place

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Gerhard L. Weinberg was born in 1928 in Hanover, Germany. He served in the US Army in 1946-47, took a history PhD at the University of Chicago, worked on Columbia University’s War Documentation Project, and established the program for microfilming the captured German documents. He taught at the Universities of Chicago, Kentucky, Michigan, and North Carolina, and has served on several US government advisory committees. Now retired, he is the author or editor of ten books including: World in the Balance: Behind the Scenes of World War II; Hitler’s Foreign Policy 1933-1939: The Road to World War II; A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II; Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II Leaders; and over 100 chapters, articles, guides to archives, and other publications.

Presented by the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Chair in Holocaust Studies and the Faculty of Arts and Science, with the support of the Canada Research Chair in Modern German History, Department of History, Centre for Jewish Studies and Joint Initiative in German & European Studies.

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