Minneapolis group 'plays' Nazi: Sorry, it's no trifle
by ALEJANDRO BAER, SABINE ENGEL, RICK MC CORMICK, RIV-ELLEN PRELL, RUTH MAZO KARRAS, and KLAAS VAN DER SANDEN
Star Tribune
March 19, 2014
It's an insult to those who suffered in the Holocaust and to those who campaigned then (and since) against such evil.
Late last week, City Pages published photographs that showed men dressed in German SS uniforms seated in the main dining room of the northeast Minneapolis restaurant Gasthof zur Gemutlichkeit, surrounded by Nazi flags. According to a participant, this was a World War II historical re-enactment meeting, "just like any club that has a party."
In Germany and several other European states, laws prohibit the public use of symbols of Nazism -- in particular, flags, insignia and uniforms. The reason: It assaults the human dignity of others by insulting, maliciously smearing or defaming segments of the population.
While in the United States the First Amendment gives constitutional protection to this type of conduct -- no matter how offensive its content -- the public display of racist or extremist symbolism usually has been followed by indignation, outrage and demands for action.
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Exclusive Twin Cities Premiere: BESA:The Promise
Muslims who saved Jews in World War II
Introduction by Dr. Daniel Schroeter, University of Minnesota
Saturday, November 9, 2013
7:00 p.m.
St. Anthony Main Theatre
Tickets: $5.00
BESA:The Promise weaves Albania's heroism in WWII through the vérité journeys of two men. One is Norman Gershman, a renowned Jewish-American photographer determined to document first-person accounts of the Albanian Muslims who rescued Jews during the Holocaust. The other is Rexhep Hoxha, a Muslim-Albanian. Rexhep must fulfill the promise made to a Jewish family his father rescued during the Holocaust and return to them a set of Hebrew books they left behind. And Rexhep's promise is more than words - it's part of his besa - an honor code that, among other things, pledges all Albanians to offer safe harbor to refugees.
More than seven years in the making, Besa: The Promise presents a powerful human drama compounded by a devastating twist. It is a story that that bridges generations and religions ... uniting fathers and sons ... Muslims and Jews.
To view the trailer click here.
Sponsored by: The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Center for Austrian Studies, European Studies Consortium, Center for Jewish Studies, The Film Society of Minneapolis/St. Paul, Jewish Community Relations Council.
Introduction by Dr. Daniel Schroeter, University of Minnesota
Saturday, November 9, 2013
7:00 p.m.
St. Anthony Main Theatre
Tickets: $5.00
BESA:The Promise weaves Albania's heroism in WWII through the vérité journeys of two men. One is Norman Gershman, a renowned Jewish-American photographer determined to document first-person accounts of the Albanian Muslims who rescued Jews during the Holocaust. The other is Rexhep Hoxha, a Muslim-Albanian. Rexhep must fulfill the promise made to a Jewish family his father rescued during the Holocaust and return to them a set of Hebrew books they left behind. And Rexhep's promise is more than words - it's part of his besa - an honor code that, among other things, pledges all Albanians to offer safe harbor to refugees.
More than seven years in the making, Besa: The Promise presents a powerful human drama compounded by a devastating twist. It is a story that that bridges generations and religions ... uniting fathers and sons ... Muslims and Jews.
To view the trailer click here.
Sponsored by: The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Center for Austrian Studies, European Studies Consortium, Center for Jewish Studies, The Film Society of Minneapolis/St. Paul, Jewish Community Relations Council.
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Friday, June 14, 2013
Friday, March 30, 2012
"Law and Democracy: The Paradoxes of Transitional Justice in Germany, 1945-1950."
Devin Pendas, Associate Professor and director of graduate studies, Boston College
Wednesday, April 4
4:30p.m.
Room 1210
Heller Hall
Wednesday, April 4
4:30p.m.
Room 1210
Heller Hall
The effort at transitional justice in Germany after World War II was one of the largest and most systematic ever undertaken. Among the least known aspects of that effort were the thousands of prosecutions for Nazi crimes undertaken by the Germans themselves in the immediate aftermath of the war.
Shaped by the context of military occupation and the budding Cold War, these German trials had a complex and often surprising impact on the political culture of the two emerging German states. Prosecuting Nazi atrocities actually played an important role in consolidating East Germany's emerging Stalinist dictatorship. And it was West German hostility to prosecuting Nazi crimes that proved crucial to its eventual democratic success.
Devin Pendas is Associate Professor and director of graduate studies at the Boston College Department of History. Professor Pendas also holds a position as a faculty affiliate and co-chair of the German Study Group at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. His fields of interest include German history, modern Europe, legal history, and the history of mass violence and war.
His research centers on war crimes trials after World War II, particularly on German Holocaust trials, and he is interested in the comparative and transnational dimensions of genocide. Pendas' 2005 book, The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, 1963-1965: Genocide, History and the Limits of the Law, provides a comprehensive history ofthe largest, most public, and most important trial of Holocaust perpetrators conducted in West German courts, addressing both the inadequacy of the trials and the public's divided response.
He has received research fellowships from the German Academic Exchange Service, the MacArthur Foundation, the Center for Contemporary Historical Research in Potsdam, Germany, the U.S. Holocaust Museum, and the American Council of Learned Societies (Burkhardt Fellowship).
Presented by: The Department of History, the Department of Sociology and the Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies.
Wednesday, April 4
4:30p.m.
Room 1210
Heller Hall
Wednesday, April 4
4:30p.m.
Room 1210
Heller Hall
The effort at transitional justice in Germany after World War II was one of the largest and most systematic ever undertaken. Among the least known aspects of that effort were the thousands of prosecutions for Nazi crimes undertaken by the Germans themselves in the immediate aftermath of the war.
Shaped by the context of military occupation and the budding Cold War, these German trials had a complex and often surprising impact on the political culture of the two emerging German states. Prosecuting Nazi atrocities actually played an important role in consolidating East Germany's emerging Stalinist dictatorship. And it was West German hostility to prosecuting Nazi crimes that proved crucial to its eventual democratic success.
Devin Pendas is Associate Professor and director of graduate studies at the Boston College Department of History. Professor Pendas also holds a position as a faculty affiliate and co-chair of the German Study Group at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. His fields of interest include German history, modern Europe, legal history, and the history of mass violence and war.
His research centers on war crimes trials after World War II, particularly on German Holocaust trials, and he is interested in the comparative and transnational dimensions of genocide. Pendas' 2005 book, The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, 1963-1965: Genocide, History and the Limits of the Law, provides a comprehensive history ofthe largest, most public, and most important trial of Holocaust perpetrators conducted in West German courts, addressing both the inadequacy of the trials and the public's divided response.
He has received research fellowships from the German Academic Exchange Service, the MacArthur Foundation, the Center for Contemporary Historical Research in Potsdam, Germany, the U.S. Holocaust Museum, and the American Council of Learned Societies (Burkhardt Fellowship).
Presented by: The Department of History, the Department of Sociology and the Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Jungle Theater Presents I Am My Own Wife
I Am My Own Wife
By Doug Wright
Directed by Joel Sass
Starring Bradley Greenwald
Now through December 18, 2011
The Jungle Theater
"Museum. Furniture. Men. This is the order in which I have lived my life." - Charlotte
The Jungle reunites actor Bradley Greenwald and director Joel Sass to tell the astounding true story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. Collector of antiques, non-conformist, and guardian of the past, Charlotte survived the Nazi terror and the communist oppression of East Germany. What makes her story so extraordinary is that Charlotte von Mahlsdorf was a man, and lived her defiant, distinctive life adamantly on her own terms. One of the most popular shows the Jungle has produced, and winner of a 2006 IVEY Award for Performance. Not to be missed!
For tickets and information please click here.
Group rates for 10+, including student rates. Call Group Sales Manager Deb Sand at 612-278-0147.
By Doug Wright
Directed by Joel Sass
Starring Bradley Greenwald
Now through December 18, 2011
The Jungle Theater
"Museum. Furniture. Men. This is the order in which I have lived my life." - Charlotte
The Jungle reunites actor Bradley Greenwald and director Joel Sass to tell the astounding true story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. Collector of antiques, non-conformist, and guardian of the past, Charlotte survived the Nazi terror and the communist oppression of East Germany. What makes her story so extraordinary is that Charlotte von Mahlsdorf was a man, and lived her defiant, distinctive life adamantly on her own terms. One of the most popular shows the Jungle has produced, and winner of a 2006 IVEY Award for Performance. Not to be missed!
For tickets and information please click here.
Group rates for 10+, including student rates. Call Group Sales Manager Deb Sand at 612-278-0147.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Premiere theatrical production looks at life between friends in Nazi occupied Poland
Our Class
By Tadeusz Slobodzianek
October 29 - November 20, 2011
Minnesota Jewish Theater Company
It's Poland in 1925, and 10 young Jewish and Catholic children, all class mates, share their dreams of what they would like to be when they grow up. As the friends grow older, things in their small town change. Poland is first invaded by the Soviets and then the Nazis. A fervent nationalism develops and bitterness ensues. In a series of events, friends betray each other and violence escalates to an unimaginable end. Based on true events, Our Class explores human behavior with a captivating boldness.
Our Class
By Tadeusz Slobodzianek
In a version by Ryan Craig
Directed by Miriam Monasch
For tickets and more information click here.
By Tadeusz Slobodzianek
October 29 - November 20, 2011
Minnesota Jewish Theater Company
It's Poland in 1925, and 10 young Jewish and Catholic children, all class mates, share their dreams of what they would like to be when they grow up. As the friends grow older, things in their small town change. Poland is first invaded by the Soviets and then the Nazis. A fervent nationalism develops and bitterness ensues. In a series of events, friends betray each other and violence escalates to an unimaginable end. Based on true events, Our Class explores human behavior with a captivating boldness.
Our Class
By Tadeusz Slobodzianek
In a version by Ryan Craig
Directed by Miriam Monasch
For tickets and more information click here.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Harbin's Death Factory & Germ Warfare in the Asian Pacific
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Sunday Nov 6, 2011
Weyerhaeuser Hall
Macalester College
"Unit 731" or the "Death Factory" of the Imperial Japanese Army, located in Harbin in WWII, is little known to the general public today. In what was the world's largest research lab on germ and/or bio-chemical warfare, the Japanese carried out experiments on live human subjects, including Chinese civilians and American and Chinese POWs. In addition, some of the "germ bombs" were flown into the US by hot air balloons toward the end of the war. After the war, the US government took the majority of the "Unit 731" scientists to the US without prosecution for war crimes. This bio-chemical warare has been kept secret for many years, but American scholars are becoming interested in this "forbidden" topic.
Contact: Yue-Him Tam, tam@macalester.edu or 651-696-6262
This event is for: Alumni, Students, Staff, Faculty, Parents and Families and Public
Admission: free
Sunday Nov 6, 2011
Weyerhaeuser Hall
Macalester College
"Unit 731" or the "Death Factory" of the Imperial Japanese Army, located in Harbin in WWII, is little known to the general public today. In what was the world's largest research lab on germ and/or bio-chemical warfare, the Japanese carried out experiments on live human subjects, including Chinese civilians and American and Chinese POWs. In addition, some of the "germ bombs" were flown into the US by hot air balloons toward the end of the war. After the war, the US government took the majority of the "Unit 731" scientists to the US without prosecution for war crimes. This bio-chemical warare has been kept secret for many years, but American scholars are becoming interested in this "forbidden" topic.
Contact: Yue-Him Tam, tam@macalester.edu or 651-696-6262
This event is for: Alumni, Students, Staff, Faculty, Parents and Families and Public
Admission: free
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