The Heavy Burden of Modern German History: Imperialism, Wars, Genocide in the Twentieth Century, and the Fall-Out   Volker R. Berghahn Seth Low Emeritus Professor of History Columbia University Lecture I: Debates Among Historians of Modern Germany, 1950-2024 Monday, October 7, 2024, 8 pm Lecture II: Hitler’s War Aims: Genocide and World Domination Monday, October 21, 2024, 8 pm Lecture III: Learning from the Past after 1945: Ordinary Germans and Elites Monday, October 28, 2024, 8pm These lectures will examine the development of Germany in the twentieth- and twenty-first- centuries up to the year 2024. As that development has led to at times heated debates […]

The Heavy Burden of Modern German History: Imperialism, Wars, Genocide in the Twentieth Century, and the Fall-Out   Volker R. Berghahn Seth Low Emeritus Professor of History Columbia University Lecture I: Debates Among Historians of Modern Germany, 1950-2024 Monday, October 7, 2024, 8 pm Lecture II: Hitler’s War Aims: Genocide and World Domination Monday, October 21, 2024, 8 pm Lecture III: Learning from the Past after 1945: Ordinary Germans and Elites Monday, October 28, 2024, 8pm These lectures will examine the development of Germany in the twentieth- and twenty-first- centuries up to the year 2024. As that development has led to at times heated debates […]