Places are going fast as people from around the world register for this exciting conference that deepens our insight into the meaning of Hitler, anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and genocide. There is still time to attend and to participate in this groundbreaking event. Through the generosity of Boston College, fees have been waived. To hold a place, send an email to Prof. John J. Michalczyk at michalcj@bc.edu with the message, "I would like to register to attend the Conference." Space is limited. Please respond immediately. PLEASE SCROLL DOWN THE PAGE FOR THE CONFERENCE PROGRAM. |
The German Organism Infected with the Poison of Marxist Ideas How did ideas presented by Hitler in Mein Kampf shape the Holocaust? This is the question posed in this exciting conference that breaks new grounds in our understanding of genocide and mass-murder. Hitler claimed that the state is a "national organism," not an economic organization. This organism, however, Hitler believed, had been "inwardly infected with the deadly poison of Marxist ideas." Consequently, the national organism did not grow inwardly healthier, but "languished more and more." The activity of conventional political leaders, Hitler said, was condemned to sterility because they saw at most the "forms of our general disease," but "blindly ignored the virus." The success of the bourgeois parties, were worthless because they were "unable to halt the Marxist flood." These leaders themselves "bore the ferments of decay in their own bodies." Year after year, those "organisms which we call States" took in "poisonous matter that they could hardly overcome." In Mein Kampf, Hitler established the foundation of Nazi ideology and the ideas that led to the Holocaust. He conveyed his conception of the German nation as an "organism" that had become ill due to having been "infected with the poison of Marxist ideas." Only in 1986—with the publication of Robert Lifton's The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide—did historians begin to understand that Nazi mass-murder was related to Hitler's conception of a "disease" from which he believed the German body politic was suffering. Hitler presented himself as the politician who could cure Germany's disease. For some, Hitler would come to be known as "Doctor of the German Nation." |
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Free Registration The conference organizers are offering a limited number of free registrations to attend this important meeting at BOSTON COLLEGE. Reservations have been coming in quickly—and the auditorium has a capacity of only 200. PLEASE REGISTER NOW. To reserve a place, send an email to Prof. John J. Michalczyk at michalcj@bc.edu with the message, "I would like to attend the Mein Kampf Conference." Space is limited. Please register immediately.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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