Lecture on Alcohol, Masculinity, and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany, featuring Ed Westermann
When:
Thursday, February 20, 2025
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM CT
Where: Harris Hall, 1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Eva Seligman
(847) 467-4408
Group: Holocaust Educational Foundation
Category: Lectures & Meetings, Academic, Multicultural & Diversity
Description:
The Intoxication of Killing: Alcohol, Masculinity, and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany
This presentation explores how alcohol consumption served as a literal and metaphorical lubricant in the Holocaust. It highlights the intersections of masculinity, drinking ritual, violence, and mass murder to expose the role of alcohol and celebratory ritual in the Nazi genocide of European Jews. Its surprising and disturbing findings offer a new perspective on the mindset, motivation, and mentality of killers as they prepared for, participated in, and celebrated mass murder.
Open to the Public
Reception to Follow