2025 Holocaust in Film Series: “Goebbels and the Fuhrer” by Joachim Lang

Join the Alabama Holocaust Education Center for its 12th annual Holocaust in Film series in partnership with Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema for a screening of Goebbels and the Fuhrer by Joachim Lang.

As Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels creates films and pictures used to prepare the Germans for Total War and the Holocaust. When the war is lost, he conceives his last staging, the most radical propaganda act still possible to him.

Join us for this exciting evening and hear afterwards from Professor Thomas Weber who served as a historical consultant during the making of the film. General Admission tickets are $10 and there are a select number of tickets free for students. Purchase your tickets today!

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Meet Our Panelists:

Thomas Weber is Professor of History and International Affairs as well as the founding Director of the Centre of Global Security and Governance at the University of Aberdeen. He also is a Visiting Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University; an Associate Fellow of the Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies at the University of Bonn; a Senior Associate of the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Munk School for Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto; and a Member of the Security History Network at Utrecht University. His expertise lies in European, international, and global political history from the 19th century to the present.

His 1st bookLodz Ghetto Album, won a Golden Light Award and an Infinity Award. His 2nd bookOur Friend “The Enemy” is the recipient of the 2008 Duc d’Arenberg History Prize for the best book on European History. His 3rd bookHitler’s First War is the recipient of the 2010 Arthur Goodzeit Book Award of the New York Military Affairs Symposium for the best book on military history. His next book, Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi , a El Mundo Top 10 Best Seller, was shortlisted for the 2018 Elizabeth Longford Prize. He also is the editor of Als die Demokratie starb: Die Machtergreifung der Nationalsozialisten.

He provides analysis on history and contemporary international affairs for news outlets & organizations in Europe, North America, and the Middle East.

 

Dr. Jonathan Wiesen is a Professor of History and former department chair at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He did his undergraduate work in history at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Sussex, and he received his Ph.D. in History from Brown University in 1998. Before coming to UAB, he was visiting assistant professor at Colgate University and Distinguished professor and chair at Southern Illinois University.

He is the author of West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past, 1945-1955 (Chapel Hill, 2001), which won a book prize from the Hagley Museum and Library and the Business History Conference. He is also co-editor with Pamela Swett and Jonathan Zatlin of Selling Modernity: Advertising in Twentieth Century Germany (Durham, 2007) and author of Creating the Nazi Marketplace: Commerce and Consumption in the Third Reich (Cambridge, 2011) and Nazi Germany: Society Culture, and Politics (Bloomsbury, 2024). His work has appeared in a number of scholarly journals, including Central European History, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Journal of Contemporary History, and the German Studies Review, and he has received research fellowships from the German Academic Exchange, The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the Gerda Henkel Foundation, among others.

He is currently writing a book on U.S. anti-Black racism in the German imagination from 1918-1968 and is most recently the author of “American Lynching in the Nazi Imagination: Race and Extra-Legal Violence in 1930s Germany,” which won the 2020 Hans Rosenberg article prize.

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Thank You to Our Partners:

 

The Perlman Charitable Fund

 

 

The Alabama Holocaust Education Center would like to thank all of our sponsors and partners for helping us to make this year’s Holocaust in Film Series possible.

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Date

Feb 25 2025

Time

Doors open at 5:30pm.
6:00 pm

Cost

$10.00

Location

Sidewalk Film Center & Cinema
1821 2nd Ave N, Birmingham, AL 35203
Website
https://sidewalkfest.com/
Phone
205-324-0888
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Organizer

Alabama Holocaust Education Center
Phone
205-795-4176
Email
info@ahecinfo.org
Website
https://ahecinfo.org/