Collaboration and Cover-Up: The German Foreign Office and the Holocaust
October 8, 2013
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location
Student Center East, Cardinal Room
Address
750 S. Halsted St., Chicago, IL 60607
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Collaboration of the Departments of Classics, History, Jewish Studies, Germanic Studies and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Metro Chicago Hillel
“Collaboration and Cover-Up: The German Foreign Office and the Holocaust”
Professor Peter Hayes
Department of History and German and the Theodore Z. Weiss-Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor of Holocaust Studies at Northwestern University
Abstract
Peter Hayes served from 2006 to 2010 as the only American member of an Independent Historians Commission that German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer appointed to examine his Ministry’s relationship to Nazi crimes both before and after 1945. An 880-page report resulted, published in German under the title “Das Amt und die Vergangenheit” (The Office and the Past). Professor Hayes will discuss the book’s three main arguments: first, that the German Foreign Office was, on the whole, a fervent and faithful servant of the Nazi regime, particularly of its anti-Jewish policies; second, that this service entailed extensive and detailed knowledge of and cooperation with the Holocaust; and third, that leading figures of the German diplomatic service deliberately created a series of legends after the war to obscure the historical truth and vindicate their earlier behavior.
Dietary laws will be observed
Parking is available at the NE corner of Taylor and Halsted, near the Roosevelt St. exit of I-94.
Contact: Dr. George A. Papadantonakis
Date posted
Jun 5, 2020
Date updated
Jun 5, 2020