In the season finale of "A Year in the Third Reich," professors Dr. Sarah Valente and Dr. Nils Roemer discuss the quickly changing landscape in 1938. During that year, the Nazis ramped up their effort to enforce removal of Jews from German and Austrian society and mobilized to remove Jews from these countries through a so-called emigration program led by Adolf Eichmann in Vienna. This episode is part of a new series, "A Year in the Third Reich," where we explored significant events that took place throughout the early years of Hitler's Third Reich. In each episode, we refer to specific primary sources such as newspaper articles, photographs, maps, etc. To access and download the Primary Sources Handout for this episode, please visit: https://ackerman.utdallas.edu/virtual-outreach/. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/holocaustpodcast/message

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Ep. 31: 1938: Eichmann and the "Office of Jewish Emigration"

In today's episode, professors Dr. Sarah Valente and Dr. Nils Roemer discuss the Japanese invasion of China in 1937, beginning the Pacific War, and the complex role of Nazi John Rabe in the Nanking Safety Zone. They also discuss the involvement of the Third Reich in the Spanish Civil War and new forms of increasing violence abroad, as well as in Nazi Germany, with the opening of the Buchenwald concentration camp.   This episode is part of a new series, "A Year in the Third Reich," where we explore significant events that took place throughout Hitler's Third Reich. In each episode, we refer to specific primary sources such as newspaper articles, photographs, maps, etc. To access and download the Primary Sources Handout for this episode, please visit: https://ackerman.utdallas.edu/virtual-outreach/. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/holocaustpodcast/message

Ep. 30: 1937: The Pacific War: The Rape of Nanking

In today's episode, professors Dr. Sarah Valente and Dr. Nils Roemer discuss the Olympics in Berlin of 1936, which set the Third Reich in the world's center stage.  This episode is part of a new series, "A Year in the Third Reich," where we explore significant events that took place throughout Hitler's Third Reich. In each episode, we refer to specific primary sources such as newspaper articles, photographs, maps, etc. To access and download the Primary Sources Handout for this episode, please visit: https://ackerman.utdallas.edu/virtual-outreach/. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/holocaustpodcast/message

Ep. 29: 1936: The Olympics in Berlin

In today's episode, professors Dr. Sarah Valente and Dr. Nils Roemer discuss the Nuremberg Laws of 1935. This episode is part of a new series, "A Year in the Third Reich," where we explore significant events that took place throughout Hitler's Third Reich. In each episode, we refer to specific primary sources such as newspaper articles, photographs, maps, etc. To access and download the Primary Sources Handout for this episode, please visit: https://ackerman.utdallas.edu/virtual-outreach/. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/holocaustpodcast/message

Ep. 28: 1935: The Nuremberg Laws

In today's episode, professors Dr. Nils Roemer and Dr. Sarah Valente discuss Hitler's meeting with Mussolini in Venice in 1934. This episode is part of a new series, "A Year in the Third Reich," where we explore significant events that took place throughout Hitler's Third Reich. In each episode, we refer to specific primary sources such as newspaper articles, photographs, maps, etc. To access and download the Primary Sources Handout for this episode, please visit: https://ackerman.utdallas.edu/virtual-outreach/. Follow us on https://www.instagram.com/holocaustpodcast/ and https://twitter.com/ackermanpodcast --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/holocaustpodcast/message

Ep. 27: 1934: Hitler and Mussolini meet in Venice

On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. In today's episode, professors Dr. Nils Roemer and Dr. Sarah Valente discuss the Reichstag Fire and the Enabling Act of 1933.  This episode is part of a new series, "A Year in the Third Reich," where we explore significant events that took place throughout Hitler's Third Reich. In each episode, we refer to specific primary sources such as newspaper articles, photographs, maps, etc. To access and download the Primary Sources Handout for this episode, please visit: www.utdallas.edu/ackerman/virtual-outreach. Follow us on https://www.instagram.com/holocaustpodcast/ and https://twitter.com/ackermanpodcast --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/holocaustpodcast/message

Ep. 26: 1933: The Reichstag Fire & The Enabling Act

Tune in next Sunday, January 31 at 10am for the first episode of our new podcast season.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/holocaustpodcast/message

Season 2: A Year in the Third Reich

In the first season finale, Dr. Sarah Valente and Dr. Nils Roemer invite Jane Saginaw, an outstanding PhD student in the Humanities program at UT Dallas, to read a few poems from her collection, "A Shift in Wind: Ten Poems of Women and the Holocaust," which she wrote as a creative research paper for Dr. Valente's graduate history course on Women and the Holocaust. Listen as Jane shares her deeply-moving poems and speaks about the women who inspired them, as well as the powerful mechanisms of resistance women developed as they fought to survive starvation, fatigue, and the brutalities of the Holocaust.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/holocaustpodcast/message

Ep. 25: Creative Research ft. Jane Saginaw

In this episode, Dr. Roemer and Dr. Valente discuss how the current pandemic changes the ways in which we engage with the past, history and Holocaust memory. #kristallnacht #remembrance #future --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/holocaustpodcast/message

Ep. 24: Remembering for the Future

Dr. Sarah Valente and Dr. Nils Roemer reflect on the Ackerman Center's annual Einspruch Lecture Series, which took place on October 25 and featured Ben Ferencz. As the last living prosecutor for the US Army at the Einsatzgruppen Trial, one of the twelve military trials held by US authorities at Nuremberg, Germany, at 100 years old, Ben Ferencz shares words of wisdom with all of us. Listen to this special episode and share with those who are interested in truth, justice, and memory.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/holocaustpodcast/message

Ep. 23: Nuremberg Trials: Truth, Justice, and Memory

In this episode of the Ackerman Center Podcast, Dr. Sarah Valente interviewed Dr. Nils Roemer about the op-ed published in the Jewish Forward this week. Dr. Roemer together with other four German-born directors of Holocaust and genocide centers at American universities wrote the article "It is not too late for American Democracy — yet." You can also read the article at https://forward.com/scribe/455419/it-is-not-too-late-for-american-democracy-yet  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/holocaustpodcast/message

Ep. 22: Drawing Lessons from History

In Episode 21: L’dor V’dor From Generation to Generation, Dr. Nils Roemer and Dr. Sarah Valente talk about the virtual celebration that took place last month to honor Dr. Zsuzsanna Ozsváth on the eve of her retirement from UT Dallas.  They also remember the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and discuss a 2004 speech she gave at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum about antisemitism and how the Holocaust fueled her quest for justice. Considering the alarming results of the Claims Conference survey on Holocaust knowledge and awareness in millennials and Generation Z, the professors discuss how it is imperative, now more than ever, to continue the center’s mission of “Teaching the Past, Changing the Future.” --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/holocaustpodcast/message

Ep. 21: L'dor V'dor From Generation to Generation

In this episode, Dr. Valente and Dr. Roemer discuss the beginning of new fall semester and navigating academic life under these unscripted times of the current pandemic. They also discuss the film When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, which was featured at the 2020 Jewish Film Festival of Dallas, a first time virtual film fest.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/holocaustpodcast/message

Ep. 20: Navigating Unscripted Times

We are excited to present the third and last episode of "Portraits of World War II." This special three-part series features beloved professors, brilliant scholars, and longtime UTD legends, whose childhoods and lives were marked by World War II. Today's special guest is Dr. Zsuzsanna Ozsváth, Professor of Literature and History, the Leah and Paul Lewis Chair of Holocaust Studies, and the founder and director of the Holocaust Studies Program at UTD, which is one of the distinguishing hallmarks of the University. #Hungary #worldwarii #holocaustsurvivor #history #literature #poetry #translation  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/holocaustpodcast/message

Ep. 19: "Portraits of World War II" featuring Dr. Zsuzsanna Ozsváth

We are excited to present the second episode of "Portraits of World War II." This special three-part series features beloved professors, brilliant scholars, and longtime UTD legends, whose childhoods and lives were marked by World War II. Today's special guest is Prof. Frederick Turner, Founders Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, poet, and renowned translator.  #poetry #literature #history #translation #worldwarII #England --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/holocaustpodcast/message

Ep. 18: "Portraits of World War II" featuring Prof. Frederick Turner

We explore Holocaust-related topics during the time of our new shared virtual realities. Hosted by Dr. Sarah Valente, visiting assistant professor of Holocaust Studies, and Dr. Nils Roemer, interim dean of the School of Arts & Humanities and director of the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas.

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