Germany’s Coming to Terms with the Holocaust
1:00 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008
Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall
Admission: free

With Germany in ruins at the end of the Second World War, Germans had to confront the question of how the land that produced Beethoven, Kant, and Einstein could also have produced Hitler and the greatest systematic mass murder in history. What was the response of Germans to the crimes that had been committed in their name? What role did the Nazi past and the Holocaust play in the self-image of the two Germanys and in the relationship of Germans with the rest of the world?

Dr. William Z. Tannenbaum is a professor of history at Missouri Southern State University. He has a Ph.D. from Stanford University, and has conducted post-doctoral studies at the University of Munich, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv University. He is the author of [italic]From Community to Citizenship: The Jews of Rural Franconia, 1801-1862 [enditalic]and numerous articles on the history of Germany and German Jews.