| Hitler's Mein Kampf: Prelude to the Holocaust |
Conference at Boston College, April 25-26, 2019
Organized by John J. Michalczyk and Rev. Raymond Helmick, SJ |
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| John J. Michalczyk, Professor and Director of Film Studies at Boston College, an author and prolific filmmaker, and Rev. Raymond Helmick, SJ, have organized a groundbreaking conference. The co-sponsors of this exciting event, Boston College and Bryant University—are generously offering a limited number of free registrations. To reserve a place, please send an email to Prof. John J. Michalczyk at michalcj@bc.edu with the message, "I would like to attend the Mein Kampf Conference." Space is limited. Please register immediately. |
Michalczyk's book, Filming the End of the Holocaust (Bloomsbury Academic) considers how the US Government commissioned the US Signal Corps and other filmmakers to document the horrors of the concentration camps during the April-May 1945 liberation. The evidence of the Nazis' genocidal actions amassed in these films, some of them made by Hollywood luminaries such as John Ford and Billy Wilder, would go on to have a major impact at the Nuremberg Trials; they helped to indict Nazi officials as the judges witnessed scenes of torture, human experimentation and extermination of Jews and non-Jews in the gas chambers and crematoria.
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Table of Contents
Foreword - Rev. Raymond G. Helmick, SJ (Boston College, USA)
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. Prelude to Nuremberg: The Allies Seek Justice
2. The US Signal Corps Encounters Atrocities
3. The British Liberation of Bergen-Belsen: Memory of the Camps (1945/1985)
4. The Soviets En Route to Nuremberg
5. Film as Visual Documentation at the Nuremberg Trials
6. Chapter Seven: Post-Nuremberg
Epilogue
Nuremberg Trials Bibliography
Holocaust Film Bibliography
Selective War Crimes Filmography
Chronology
Index |
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Praise for Filming the End of the Holocaust
"Michalczyk's study includes a chronology (1934–1962), a bibliography of the Nuremberg trials, a bibliography of Holocaust film, an annotated filmography (21 films), and a lengthy index. The text is solemn and intense. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." – P. H. Stacy, emeritus, University of Hartford, CHOICE
"[This] volume surveys a broad range of too-little-known Holocaust documentaries ... [and] makes an individual contribution to this still understudied area of research."
– CINEASTE |
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Conference Description
| In 2016, the historians in Munich's Institute of Contemporary History published an annotated 2-volume edition of Hitler's blueprint for the new Germany, Mein Kampf. The impact of this new, 2,000 page annotated edition—which sold 85,000 copies within a year—led to the development of this international conference. Speakers from Israel, Germany and the US will present their scholarly work to show how Hitler's writing in Mein Kampf on nationalism, expansionism and anti-Semitism led to the tragedy of WWII and the Holocaust. |
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Conference Schedule
Thursday, April 25, 2019 |
| 7:00 p.m. |
Opening Session
Michael Bryant: "Mein Kampf and Early Steps Toward Genocide"
Karla Schoenbeck: "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
Consul General |
| 9:00 a.m. |
Keynote Address
Magnus Brechtken: "Mein Kampf: The Critical Edition in Historical Perspective"
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 |
| 1:00 p.m. |
Session I
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" |
| 3:00 p.m. |
Session II
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" |
| 4:45 p.m. |
Candle Lighting Ceremony for Yom HaShoah |
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| John J. Michalczyk, Professor and Director of Film Studies at Boston College, an author and prolific filmmaker, and Rev. Raymond Helmick, SJ, have organized a groundbreaking conference. The co-sponsors of this exciting event, Boston College and Bryant University—are generously offering a limited number of free registrations. To reserve a place, please send an email to Prof. John J. Michalczyk at michalcj@bc.edu with the message, "I would like to attend the Mein Kampf Conference." Space is limited. Please register immediately. |
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