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Hitler’s Mein Kampf: Prelude to the Holocaust
A Yom HaShoah Commemoration
April 25-26, 2019, Boston College
Sponsors: Bryant University, Center for German and European Studies (Brandeis University),Institute for the Liberal Arts, Center for Human Rights and International Justice, BC Law School /Holocaust Project, Jewish Studies Program, Film Studies Program, Woods College of Advancing Studies, Jacques Salmanowitz Program, German Studies Department, Office of International Programs, Music Department, Winston Center, Faith, Peace and Justice Program, BC Hillel, Art, Art History and Film Department, Library of Social Science, Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics, International Studies.
Thursday, April 25, 2019
7:00 p.m. OPENING SESSION
Opening: Conference Co-Organizer Prof. John J. Michalczyk
Welcome: On behalf of the University: Vice Provost for Faculties Billy Soo
Chair: Susan A. Michalczyk (Boston College)
Michael Bryant: “Intimations of Genocide in Mein Kampf”
Karla Schönebeck: ”Focus Landsberg: A Bavarian Town and Its History Tied to Hitler”
Wolfgang Hauck: Exhibit—From Vilnius to Landsberg
Friday, April 26, 2019
8:30 a.m. WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS
9:00 a.m. KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Magnus Brechtken: "Mein Kampf : The Critical Edition in Historical Perspective"
Othmar Plöckinger:"Mein Kampf: Part of the Right-winged German Post-war Literature"
BREAK
SESSION I
Chair: Michael Bryant
David Crowe: “Mein Kampf and the Evolution of the Nazi Concept of Jewish Bolshevism”
Melanie Murphy: “Marxism: Enemy of the People”
Richard A. Koenigsberg: “Hitler as the Robert Koch of Germany”
12:00 p.m. LUNCH
1:15 p.m. SESSION II
Chair: Donald Fishman (Boston College)
Martin Menke: “Traces of Catholicism in Mein Kampf”
James Bernauer, SJ: “Jesuits, Jews and Holocaust Remembrance”
Nathan Stoltzfus: “Political Violence in Mein Kampf: Hitler’s Tactics for Gaining and Exercising Power”
3:30 p.m. SESSION III
Chair: Sabine von Mering (Brandeis University)
Ralf Gawlick: “Art and Its Perversion”
Paul Bookbinder: “The Nature of ‘The People/Volk’ and Qualities of a Leader to Help Create the Holocaust.”
Tetyana Kloubert: “Holocaust Education and (Early) Signs of the Erosion of Democracy”
5:30 p.m. CANDLE LIGHTING CEREMONY FOR YOM HASHOA
Boston College Hillel
German Exhibit: “The Holocaust from Vilnius to Landsberg”
Book Exhibit: Sponsored by the Library of Social Science
Contributors
Organizers:
John J. Michalczyk is a Professor of Film in the Art, art History and Film Department, and author and editor of ten books, including Filming the End of the Holocaust, Confront! Resistance in Nazi Germany, and Nazi Law: From Nuremberg to Nuremberg. Since 1992 his documentary films include The Cross and the Star: Jews, Christians and the Holocaust; Nazi Medicine: In the Shadow of the Reich; and Nazi Law: Legally Blind.
Michael Bryant is a Professor of History and Legal Studies at Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island, and the author of three books: Confronting the Good Death: Nazi Euthanasia on Trial, 1945-53 (2005); Eyewitness to Genocide: The Operation Reinhard Death Camp Trials, 1955-66 (2014); and A World History of War Crimes: From Antiquity to the Present (2015).
Prof. Susan A. Michalczyk is a Professor in the Boston College Morrissey College of Arts and Science Honors Program, and Co-Producer of Nazi Law: Legally Blind, as well as a Screenwriter for The Writing is on the Wall: Remembering the Berlin Wall. She is also co-author with John Michalczyk of the essay on the WWII documentary by John Huston, Let There Be Light.
Panelists:
James Bernauer, SJ is the Kraft Family Professor of Philosophy at Boston College where he is also the Director of its Center for Christian-Jewish Learning. He has published extensively on the philosophies of Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault. His forthcoming book (2019) from the University of Notre Dame Press is entitled Jesuit Kaddish: Jesuits, Jews and Holocaust Remembrance.
Paul Bookbinder is a longtime faculty member in the History Department at U. Mass Boston who teaches and writes about Weimar and Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. He regularly teaches a course on Hitler. His most recent publication is a book chapter “Our Enemies Have No Rights: Carl Schmitt and the Two-Tiered System of Justice” in Nazi Law: From Nuremberg to Nuremberg, edited by John J. Michalczyk.
Magnus Brechtken is Deputy Director of the Munich Institute for Contemporary History as well as Professor at the University of Munich. His publications include: “Madagaskar für die Juden,” in Antisemitische Idee und politische Praxis 1885-1945; Scharnierzeit 1895-1907. Persönlichkeitsnetze und internationale Politik in den deutsch-britisch-amerikanischen Beziehungen vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg; Life Writing and Political Memoir; and Albert Speer - Eine deutsche Karriere.
David M. Crowe is a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University and Professor Emeritus of History & Law at Elon University. His most recent publications include Stalin’s Soviet Justice: ‘Show’ Trials, War Crimes Trials, and Nuremberg (Bloomsbury 2019), and “The Tokyo and Nuremberg IMT Trials; A Comparative Analysis,” in 70 Years On: The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (International Nuremberg Principles Academy/TOAEP, 2019). He is currently writing Raphael Lemkin: The Life of a Visionary.
Ralf Yusuf Gawlick, a professor of music at Boston College, is of Romani-Kurdish descent. His works include solo, chamber, orchestral and choral music, traversing a wide range of styles and often exploring aspects of his complex international heritage. Most recently, he performed Herzliche Grüße Bruno ~ Briefe aus Stalingrad. His music, published by several firms, has been performed internationally, in venues including Vienna’s Musikverein and New York’s Carnegie Hall.
Wolfgang Hauck is a German artist, photographer, performer and project developer. Since 1994 he has been director of the theatre “Die Stelzer,” director of the NGO diekKunstBauStelle, Association of Independent Performing Art Bavaria and producer. He has also developed socio-cultural projects in the field of cultural and historical education. The artistic examination of Nazi history began in Dachau in 1986.
Tetyana Kloubert is an Acting Professor for Adult Education at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany, as well as a faculty member at the University of Augsburg. She researches civic education in Europe and the United States, focusing in particular on the distinction between education and indoctrination, on education for migrants and refugees, and on dealing with the totalitarian past. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Augsburg (Germany) and her two M.A.s from the University of Jena (Germany) and National University of Chernivtsi (Ukraine).
Richard Koenigsberg, PhD, is an author and Director of the Library of Social Science, a scholarly research institute and marketing firm. His books on Nazism include Hitler’s Ideology: A Study in Psychoanalytic and Nations Have the Right to Kill: Hitler, the Holocaust and War. His Ideologies of War, Genocide and Terror Website presents papers, lectures, book chapters and videos, and is considered one of the preeminent resources in the field.
Martin Menke is a Professor of History at Rivier University in Nashua, New Hampshire. This year he serves as Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Advising of the Woods College at Boston College. He has published several articles on the Weimar era German Center Party and its relationship to nationalism generally and to the NSDAP in particular. He continues to work on a monograph on German Center Party decision-making, 1917-1933.
Melanie Murphy is an Associate Professor of History and member of the International Studies faculty at Emmanuel College, Boston, Massachusetts where she teaches European, Middle Eastern and World History. She has written on culture and politics under communism and fascism, on literature and political identity, and contributed a chapter on homosexuality and the law to Nazism and the Law: from Nuremberg to Nuremberg, ed., John J. Michalczyk.
Othma Plöckinger is a high school teacher of history, German literature and mathematics in Salzburg, as well as a freelance historian and lecturer at the University of the Bundeswehr in Munich. His main research is the early history and the ideology of National Socialism. He is one of the editors of the German edition of Mein Kampf and scientific advisor of the forthcoming French edition. This summer his new anthology dealing with the linguistic aspects of translations of Mein Kampf will be published.
Karla Schönebeck has been dealing with National Socialism and its effects up to the present for years. Her main focus is on intergenerational, interreligious and intercultural dialogue. She initiated, among others, with the University of Music and Performing Arts, the international Wolf Durmashkin Composition Award (WDCA) for young artists, which is accompanied by workshops, public discussions and her exhibitions “Music and the Holocaust” and “From Lithuania to Landsberg.”
Nathan Stoltzfus is Dorothy and Jonathan Rintels Professor of Holocaust Studies at Florida State University and author or editor of seven books of which the most recent is Hitler’s Compromises: Coercion and Consensus in Nazi Germany (Yale University, 2016). Resistance of the Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany was a Fraenkel Prize co-winner, a New Statesman Book of the Year, and prize winner of Munich’s Besten Liste for nonfiction.
Chairs:
Sabine von Mesing is Director of the Center for German and European Studies and Professor of German and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University. She has been involved in Brandeis’ Jewish-German Dialogue for over twenty years and teaches and writes about German Language, Literature, and Culture, and about Climate Change as an issue for the Humanities. One of her co-edited volumes, Right-Wing Radicalism Today: Perspectives from Europe and the US (Routledge, 2013) includes a chapter by Othmar Plöckinger about the critical edition of Mein Kampf.
Donald Fishman is the Co-Director of the Jewish Studies Program at Boston College. Fishman teaches courses in Communication Law, Crisis Communication, and Communicating the Jewish Experience. He is the past president of the Eastern Communication Association, and he is the recipient of the Haiman Award for distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression and the Phifer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Parliamentary Procedure. Fishman is the former chair of the Department of Communication at Boston College.
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