In the aftermath of Germany’s defeat in World War I and the failed revolution of 1918–19, the conservative government of Bavaria associated Jews with left-wing radicalism. Among those who helped transform the Bavarian capital, which had once accommodated the artistic and literary avant-garde of Wilhelmine Germany, was a recently discharged corporal of Austrian birth: the future Führer. Drawing on a wealth of previously unknown documents, “In Hitler’s Munich” relates how a once-cosmopolitan city became, in the words of Thomas Mann, “the city of Hitler” and a testing ground for Nazism and the Final Solution.

Michael Brenner is the Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies at American University in Washington, D.C., and the author of nine books on different aspects of modern Jewish history. He publishes widely in international media and is a frequent contributor to television and radio programming. In 2014, he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

All Holocaust Living History Workshop events are free and open to the public, but registration is required. Registration will open approximately one month before the event date.

Sponsor: With support from European Studies

About the Holocaust Living History Workshop

This event is a part of the Holocaust Living History Workshop (HLHW) series, an education and outreach program sponsored by the UC San Diego Library and the Jewish Studies program. It aims to preserve the memories of the victims and survivors of the Holocaust by offering public events involving witnesses, descendants and scholars and through the use of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s Visual History Archive. Past HLHW workshops are now part of the Library’s digital collections and can be accessed online.