By Jill Yesko , University Relations
Contact: (336) 334-5371
Posted 3-26-07
Dr. Christopher R. Browning
GREENSBORO, NC – Dr. Christopher R. Browning, who has spent over 20 years studying, researching, writing and teaching about the history of the Holocaust will deliver a lecture titled “Holocaust Perpetrators Reconsidered: Fifteen Years After Ordinary Men.”
The event will take place on Thursday, April 12, at 7:30 in Room of 225 of the Curry Building at UNCG. The public is welcome at no charge. A book signing will follow the event.
Browning is the author of seven books on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. His 1992 book, “Ordinary Men,” analyzed a German policy unit that massacred and rounded up Jews for deportation to death camps in Poland in 1942. Browning concluded that the men killed due to peer pressure rather than for blood lust.
Browning is the Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at UNC Chapel Hill. In 2006 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he is currently a fellow at the National Humanities Center. He has delivered the George Macauley Trevelyan Lectures at Cambridge University.
Browning has been an expert witness at various trials of accused Nazi criminals in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. He is a contributor to Yad Vashem’s official 24-volume history of the Holocaust. His books “Ordinary Men” and “The Origins of the Final Solution” have received the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category.
For more information contact the Department of History at (336) 334-5992, or visit www.uncg.edu/his.
