WSU Department of History Progessor Andrew Port will discuss his newly released book Germans After the Holocaust: Never Again in the new Humanities Commons on the second floor of the Adamsny Undergraduate Library at 2:30 Monday January 29, 2024. Free to All.

the new Humanities Center is a program of CLAS directed by Professor M. L. Liebler, English it is located in the open area behind The Honors College inside the UGL

Andrew I. Port is the author of Never Again: Germans and Genocide after the Holocaust, Conflict and Stability in the German Democratic Republic, and Becoming East German: Structures and Sensibilities after Hitler. He is the recipient of the DAAD Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German and European Studies, and former editor-in-chief of the flagship journal Central European History.

synopsis

When it comes to German efforts to confront the Nazi past, conventional approaches tend to focus on solemn statements and well-meant monuments. Never Again: Germans and Genocide after the Holocaust (Belknap/Harvard, 2023) looks instead at the very concrete ways in which postwar Germans embraced the lessons of the Third Reich and the Holocaust—above all in response to other genocides that took place elsewhere after 1945 in places like Cambodia, Bosnia, and Rwanda. This innovative approach makes the lessons, limits, and liabilities of politics driven by memories of a troubled history harrowingly clear.