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Hitler vs Trump

Christopher R. Browning, a history major from the Class of 1967, will present a Zoom discussion later this month about interwar Germany and today's United States. Are they comparable cases of the failure of democracy and the rise of dictatorship?

Awarded an honorary doctorate by Oberlin in 2014, Professor Browning earned his PhD in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He currently resides in the Pacific Northwest with his wife Jenni Horn Browning ’67.

His Zoom talk will attempt a careful comparison and contrast between Hitler and Trump as personalities and politicians, as well as between the fall of Weimar and rise of Nazi dictatorship on the one hand and current events and trends in the U.S. on the other. Insights based upon knowledge of the past are very important for illuminating and understanding our current situation, but the careless weaponizing of the past simply to stigmatize one’s opponents is self-defeating.

This event will be on Tuesday, February 24, from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. (U.S. Eastern).

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