Timothy Snyder, Housum Proffesor of History, Yale University and author of Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitlet and Stalin, will be speaking on "The Holocaust as a Political History".

How could the Holocaust have happened? Hitler conceived of the Jews as a planetary threat, but only war in a particular part of the world allowed the mass killing to begin. This lecture explores the world as Hitler saw it and seeks to demonstrate how the destruction of states permitted new forms of politics that enabled, to a shocking degree, the realization of that vision.

When: Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 7:30pm

Where: Oxford Presentation Auditorium, 1390 Oxford Road, Atlanta 30307

The talk is co-sponsored by Georgia Tech's Jean Monnet Center of Excellence, the Dean of Emory College of Arts and Sciences, the Halle Institute for Global Learning, Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, REES, REALC and the ILA, Emory University. The event is free and open to the public.