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"Hitler's Mein Kampf: Prelude to the Holocaust"
Conference at Boston College, April 25-26, 2019

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.

Conference Organizer, John J. Michalczyk,
is the Author/Editor of this important book:

Nazi Law: From Nuremberg to Nuremberg
(Scroll down for the Table of Contents)

Click here for information on ordering from Amazon.

A distinguished group of scholars from Germany, Israel and across the United States are brought together in Nazi Law to investigate the ways in which Hitler and the Nazis used the law as a weapon, mainly against the Jews, to establish and progress their master plan for German society. The book looks at how, after assuming power in 1933, the Nazi Party manipulated the legal system and the constitution in its crusade against Communists, Jews, homosexuals, as well as Jehovah's Witnesses and other religious and racial minorities, resulting in World War II and the Holocaust. It then goes on to analyze how the law was subsequently used by the opponents of Nazism in the wake of World War Two to punish them in the war crime trials at Nuremberg. This is a valuable edited collection of interest to all scholars and students interested in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.

Table of Contents

Foreword, Lorenz Reibling (Boston College, USA)
Introduction, John J. Michalczyk (Boston College, USA)

Part I - A Judicial System without Jews and without Justice

1. Politics, Ethics and Natural Law in Early Twentieth Century Germany, 1900-1950, Douglas G. Morris (Federal Defenders NY, USA)
2. Our Enemies Have No Rights: Carl Schmitt and the Two-Tiered System of Justice, Paul Bookbinder (University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA)
3. Defining the Jew: The Origins of the Nuremberg Laws, Oleksandr Kobrynskyy (University of Nuremberg-Erlangen, Germany)
4. Vichy France and the Nuremberg Laws, John Romeiser (University of Tennessee, USA)
5. The Judenräte and the Nazi Racial Policies: Ethical issues in Claude Lanzmann's Last of the Unjust (2013), Yvonne Kozlovsky Golan (Haifa University, Israel)
6. High Treason in the People's Court, John J. Michalczyk (Boston College, USA)

Part II - Hippocrates Abandoned by Nazi Doctors

7. Resistance or Complicity: Medical and Religious Responses to Law under the Third Reich, Johnathan Kelly, Erin Miller and Michael A. Grodin (Boston University, USA)
8. Homosexuality and the Law in the Third Reich, Melanie Murphy (Emmanuel College, USA)
9. Physicians, Psychologists, and Lawyers as Torturers: From WWII to Post 9/11, George Annas and Sondra Crosby (Boston University School of Public Health, USA)
10. Nazi Medicine and the Holocaust: Implications for Bioethics and Professionalism Education, Ashley Fernandes (Ohio State University, USA)

Part III - Economic Policies and the Stripping of the Jewish Community

11. The German Plunder and Theft of Jewish Property in the General Government, David M. Crowe (Elon University, USA)
12. Nazi Laws Used to Plunder Art and the Current Legal Tools Used to Unwind Looting, Leila Amineddoleh (Fordham University and New York University, USA)

Part IV - A God Subverted by Nazi Policy

13. The Hereafter versus the Here-and-Now: Catholicism under National Socialism, Kevin Spicer (Stonehill College, USA)
14. Nazi Persecution of German Protestants, Christopher Probst (Maryville University, USA)
15. Jehovah's Witnesses in the Third Reich, Gerhard Besier (Dresden University, Germany)

Part V - To the Victor Belongs Justice: At Nuremberg and Beyond

16. German Courts in the Maelstrom of Criminal Guilt: Tracing the Rise of Collective Responsibility in Nazi Death Camp Trials, 1963-2016, Michael Bryant (Bryant University, USA)
17. The Devil's Chemists on Trial: The American Prosecution of I.G. Farben at Nuremberg, Mark Spicka (Shippensburg University, USA)
18. Nazi Experiments, the Nuremberg Code, and the United States, Sandra H. Johnson (St. Louis University School of Law, USA)

Epilogue, John J. Michalczyk (Boston College, USA)

Hitler's Mein Kampf: Prelude to the Holocaust
Conference at Boston College, April 25-26, 2019; FREE REGISTRATION
Organized by Prof. John J. Michalczyk, Prof. Susan A. Michalczyk, and Prof. Michael S. Bryant
PLEASE SCROLL DOWN THE PAGE FOR CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION AND SCHEDULE

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.
Conference Program
Thursday, April 25, 2019
7:00 p.m. Opening Session
Michael Bryant: "Mein Kampf and Early Steps Toward Genocide"
Karla Schoenbeck: "Focus Landsberg: A Bavarian Town and Its History Tied to Hitler"
Wolfgang Hauck: Exhibit—From Vilnius to Landsberg
Friday, April 26, 2019
8:30 a.m. Welcome & Opening Remarks
Consul General
9:00 a.m. Keynote Address
Magnus Brechtken: "Mein Kampf: The Critical Edition in Historical Perspective"
David Crowe: "Mein Kampf and  the Evolution of the Nazi Concept of Jewish Bolshevism"
Melanie Murphy: "Marxism: Enemy of the People"
Richard A. Koenigsberg: "Hitler as the Robert Koch of Germany"
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. Session I
Martin Menke: "Traces of Catholicism in Mein Kampf"
James Bernauer, SJ: "Jesuits, Jews and Holocaust Remembrance"
Nathan Stoltzfus: "Political Violence in Mein Kampf: Hitler's Tactics for Gaining and Exercising Power"
3:00 p.m. Session II
Ralf Gawlick: "Art and Its Perversion"
Paul Bookbinder: "The Nature of 'The People/Volk' and Qualities of a Leader to Help Create the Holocaust."
Tetyana Kloubert: "Holocaust Education and (Early) Signs of the Erosion of Democracy"
4:45 p.m. Candle Lighting Ceremony for Yom HaShoah
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.