11th Annual Holocaust Memorial Lecture: Holocaust Denial in the Courtroom

Professor Christopher Browning will present the 11th Annual Holocaust Memorial Lecture, “Holocaust Denial in the Courtroom: The Historian as Expert Witness,” on Monday, September 22, at 7:30 p.m. in the Mabel Brown Room.

Professor Browning is the Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is known for his book Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, and for his role as an expert witness in the libel defense of Prof. Deborah Lipstadt, author of _Denying the Holocaust, _who was sued by Holocaust denier David Irving in the late 1990s.

Other scholarship by Browning includes The Final Solution and the German Foreign Office (1978), Fateful Months: Essays on the Emergence of the Final Solution (1985), The Path to Genocide (1992), and Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942 (2004).

In 1999 Professor Browning gave the George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures at Cambridge University, since published under the title Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers (2000). In 2001 he delivered the first George Mosse Lecture at the University of Wisconsin, later published as Collected Memories: Holocaust History and Postwar Testimony (2003). Using the testimony of nearing 265 survivors, he is currently working on a case study of the slave labor camps in Starachowice in central Poland. For more information visit the Cohen Center or call 8-2490.

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Professor Christopher Browning