Symposium

Perspectives on National Socialism, Global War, and the Holocaust: Symposium in Honor of Gerhard L. Weinberg

German Historical Institute, Washington, DC -- Friday, May 02, 2008

Program

09:30 - 11:00
Panel I: Hitler and Nazi Germany

Moderator: Philipp Gassert (GHI)

Astrid M. Eckert (Emory University): Bulk Filming: Enabling the Transatlantic
Study of National Socialism

Detlef Junker (Universität Heidelberg): The Impact of Hitler’s “Second Book”

Dietrich Orlow (Boston University): Gerhard Weinberg and the
Historiography of National Socialism

11:30 - 01:00
Panel II: “A World At Arms”

Moderator: Doris Bergen (University of Toronto)

Norman Goda (Ohio University): Germany and the Origins of World War II

Alfred Mierzejewski (University of North Texas): The Unmasterable Future: Gerhard Weinberg's Visions of Victory

Jürgen Förster (Universität Freiburg): Military History and Global War

Lunch 1:00-3:00

03:00 - 04:30
Panel III: Global War and the Holocaust

Moderator: Christopher Browning (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Michaela Hoenicke Moore (University of Iowa): Memory, Lessons, and the
Meaning of Word War II for American Foreign Policy 

Richard Breitman (American University):  Intelligence, the Holocaust, and the War Effort

Daniel Rogers (University of South Alabama): Gerhard Weinberg's Scholarship in International Context

06:00 - 08:00
A Transatlantic Evening in Honor of Gerhard L. Weinberg: Greetings and Tributes

Moderator: Alan E. Steinweis (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

Hartmut Berghoff – German Historical Institute

Ambassador Klaus Scharioth  – Federal Republic of Germany

Geoffrey Giles   – Friends of the GHI

Michael Brenner – Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Munich

Gretchen Skidmore – United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Isabel Hull – AHA Conference Group on Central European History

Henry Friedlander – German Studies Association

Konrad H. Jarausch – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Gerhard L. Weinberg – Sixty Years of Adventures in German History

Buffet dinner to follow

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