How did Hitler's Mein Kamp, fore-shadow and structure the Holocaust? This is the question posed in this groundbreaking conference featuring some of the world's top scholars on Hitler and the Holocaust.

In Mein Kampf (Vol. I, Chap. VII), Hitler discussed the poison gas attack that wounded him in the last days of the First World War: "And, finally, almost in the last few days of that titanic struggle, when the waves of poison gas enveloped me and began to penetrate my eyes, the thought of becoming permanently blind unnerved me."

In Vol. II, Chap. XV, he fulminated: "If at the beginning of the War and during the War, 12 or 15 thousand of these Hebrew corrupters of the people had been held under poison gas, as happened to hundreds of thousands of our very best German workers in the field, the sacrifice of millions at the front would not have been in vain."

In Hitler's fantasy, he would subject Jews to poison gas—just as he and hundreds of thousands of German soldiers had suffered from poison gas attacks during the First World War. Do unto others as had been done unto you.

It was a miracle of history that Hitler would enact his desire: to subject other human beings to asphyxiation—just as he and his comrades had been.

This horrific, catastrophic, cataclysmic miracle, which came to be known as the Holocaust, represented the enactment of Hitler's fantasy.

Co-Organizers of the Conference

John J. Michalczyk, Professor and Director of Film Studies at Boston College, an author and prolific filmmaker. Professor Susan A. Michalczyk, Film co-Producer with John for Etoile Productions and scripter for their Berlin Wall Film. Professor Michael S. Bryant, Professor of History and Social Science at Bryant University, have organized a groundbreaking conference. Co-sponsors of this exciting event include Boston College and Bryant University.

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