Tigermedia - Weaponizing the Past: German Fascism in the Twentieth Century
Weaponizing the Past: German Fascism in the Twentieth Century
Date: September 27th, 2023
Duration:
1h:3m:46s
Join Drs. Aliza Atik and Kathleen Alves, both Associate Professors of English at Queensborough Community College-CUNY and the 2023-24 KHC-National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Faculty Fellows, for a discussion about the cultural rhetoric of German “greatness” surrounding the anti-Jewish legislation and violence immediately prior to start of World War II. The program features selections from the film, Good Morning Mr. Hitler (1993), which captures footage from the 1939 German Art Festival—a mass celebration in Munich, Germany in honor of 2,000 years of German culture that took place six weeks before the war’s outbreak.
This event is part of the 2023-24 Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Colloquium, “Weaponizing the Past: Art, History and the Rhetoric of National Greatness.” The event is organized by the KHC and is co-sponsored by the Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at Western Washington University; the Holocaust & Human Rights Center in White Plains; and the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University. For more information about the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center, please visit https://khc.qcc.cuny.edu