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Enemy of the People: The Munich Post and the Journalists Who Opposed Hitler

Retired Associated Press journalist and UVM alumnus Terrence Petty will discuss his new book, Enemy of the People: The Munich Post and the Journalists Who Opposed Hitler. He will also reflect on his long career in journalism and on how his youth in Vermont and education as a history major at UVM prepared him for it.

Terrence Petty was an Associated Press journalist for nearly 35 years, including a decade as a Germany-based foreign correspondent. A seventh-generation Vermonter, he was born and raised in the southern Champlain Valley. After graduating from UVM in 1974 with a BA in History, he got his start in journalism with the Addison Independent in Middlebury. He then worked at newspapers in Syracuse and Albany before taking a job with the AP in 1982. From 1987 to 1997 Petty was based in Bonn, Germany, where he reported on the last years of the Cold War. He traveled into the East bloc, writing about pro-democracy movements, the geopolitical ramifications of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the neo-Nazi violence that flared after the two German states merged and continues to this day. He reported on the solemn commemorations of the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi concentration camps in 1995, and in 1995/96 reported from Bosnia on the discovery of mass graves and on NATO's efforts to enforce a peace agreement among the warring sides. From 1997 to his retirement in 2017, Petty worked for the AP in Rhode Island and Portland, Oregon. Petty's book, Enemy of The People: The Munich Post and The Journalists Who Opposed Hitler, was published in May 2019. It is the culmination of about 15 years of research, which included trips to Munich and elsewhere in Germany to search for and read documents and other archival material. Petty and his wife Christina, also a native Vermonter, reside in Portland, Oregon. Petty continues to conduct research on German topics.

This event will take place in the framework of Prof. Alan Steinweis' class on the History of the Holocaust. This session is open to the public and free.

All attendees are invited to a catered reception immediately following the event.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED AS A RESULT OF THE COVID-19 SITUATION. WE HOPE TO RE-SCHEDULE THE SPEAKER FOR A FUTURE TIME.

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A panel discussion about Nazi eugenics featuring Prof. Lutz Kaelber of the UVM Department of Sociology and Prof. Annette Eberle of the Catholic University of Applied Sciences, Munich-Benediktbeuern, Germany.

Additional details will be posted here.

This event will take place in the framework of Prof. Alan Steinweis' class on the History of the Holocaust. This session is open to the public and free.

The Annual Raul Hilberg Memorial Lecture

Speaker: Prof. Nikolaus Wachsmann, Birkbeck College, University of London

Topic and Venue TBA