Please join us on Wed., Feb. 20 in Ham-Wil, Benes Room B at 7 p.m. as historian and author Pete Kakel, Ph.D., discusses the origins, context and content of the Holocaust when he presents “Hitler’s ‘Indian Wars’ in the ‘Wild East’: The Holocaust as Colonial Genocide.”
A 1969 Ohio Wesleyan alumnus, Kakel is a research historian and lecturer in modern history at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Liberal Arts. He is the author of “The American West and the Nazi East: A Comparative and Interpretive Perspective” and “The Holocaust as Colonial Genocide: Hitler’s ‘Indian Wars’ in the ‘Wild East.’”
His presentation represents Ohio Wesleyan’s 2019 Robert Kragalott Lecture on Genocide, Mass Atrocity and Human Rights. A Q & A session will follow the lecture.
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Contact: Dawn Wright at history@owu.edu.