(PDF) (DOC) (JPG)April 15, 2014

(MAHWAH, NJ) –David Wildermuth, Professor of German at Shippensberg University in Pennsylvania, will discuss “’And from that moment, the Shoah began for us:’ What Survivor Testimony Tells Us About the Wehrmacht and its Victims during the German Invasion of the Soviet Union” at Ramapo College of New Jersey on Thursday, April 17 from 1 to 2 p.m. in the Trustees Pavilion (PAV1).

Dr. Wildermuth will share unpublished research that reveals the behavior of front-line Wehrmacht units towards the Jewish communities around the town of Lida, in present-day Belarus. Victim testimony, corroborated by pre-invasion orders and the division’s war diaries, will reveal how both the ingrained anti-Semitism and the operational latitude informed the Wehrmacht’s actions towards Soviet Jews.

Dr. Wildermuth holds a B.A. from the State University of New York at Cortland, an M.A. from Bowling Green State University, Ohio and a Doctorate in Modern Languages (D.M.L.) from Middlebury College.

In the fall of 2013, Dr.Wildermuth held a four-month fellowship at the Institute of Contemporary History in Munich, Germany. His article, “Who Killed Lida’s Jewish Intelligentsia? A Case Study of Wehrmacht Involvement in the Holocaust’s “First Hour,” appeared in the Spring 2013 issue of Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

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