What History Teaches: The Rise of Nazism

Join Holocaust museums and education centers across North America for a powerful, multi-part webinar series exploring how democracy eroded and extremism took root in 1930’s Germany—and the urgent lessons we can draw today.

All sessions are free 60-minute Zoom webinars. Click on each individual lecture title for more information and to register for a Zoom link.

Dr. Beth Griech-Polelle

Beth is the Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies and Associate Professor of History at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA. She earned her MA and PhD at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Dr. Griech-Polelle began her teaching career at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Her most recent publication is a revised and expanded edition of Antisemitism and the Holocaust: Language, Rhetoric and Traditions of Hatred. She has also published Bishop von Galen: German Catholicism and National Socialism, she has edited a revised and expanded the second edition of The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial and Its Policy Consequences Today as well as editing, Trajectories of Memory, an examination of the Holocaust in History and in the Arts. She has published numerous articles, chapters in books and book reviews. Her most recent research involves examining the persecution of “Catholic non-Aryans” in Nazi Germany.

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