What History Teaches: Scapegoating and the Politics of Othering

Program Presented by: Holocaust Center for Humanity, Seattle

A look at how Nazis leveraged fear, nationalism, and antisemitism to scapegoat Jewish people and other minorities. What societal and psychological dynamics made this strategy so effective?

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12:00 pm Pacific Time
(3:00 pm Eastern Time, 2:00 pm Central Time, 1:00 pm Mountain Time)

About Our Speaker:

Dr. Beth Griech-Polelle

Beth is the Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies and Associate Professor of History at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA. She earned her MA and PhD at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Dr. Griech-Polelle began her teaching career at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Her most recent publication is a revised and expanded edition of Antisemitism and the Holocaust: Language, Rhetoric and Traditions of Hatred. She has also published Bishop von Galen: German Catholicism and National Socialism, she has edited a revised and expanded the second edition of The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial and Its Policy Consequences Today as well as editing, Trajectories of Memory, an examination of the Holocaust in History and in the Arts. She has published numerous articles, chapters in books and book reviews. Her most recent research involves examining the persecution of “Catholic non-Aryans” in Nazi Germany.

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Date

Sep 16 2025

Time

Pacific
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Location

ZOOM Online

Organizer

Holocaust Center for Humanity Seattle
Holocaust Center for Humanity Seattle
Website
https://www.holocaustcenterseattle.org/