German troops watch a village burn in the Rogachyevo district of Gomel, Belarus. US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War
More than seven decades after his suicide, Adolf Hitler continues to generate both scholarly and popular interest. This panel discussion will examine Hitler as a wartime leader and as an object of cinematic representation.
Speakers
“The Real Hitler and the Reel Hitler”
Dr. Erik Born, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Society for the Humanities and Department of German Studies, Cornell University
“Hitler’s Strategy”
Dr. Geoffrey Megargee, Senior Applied Research Scholar, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
Dr. Megargee is participating in a panel discussion at the invitation of the History department and the honors program of St. John Fisher College. His appearance is made possible by the Campus Outreach Lecture Program of the United States Holocaust Museum's Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, supported by Jack and Goldie Wolfe Miller.