Professor Sir Richard Evans: War in the Nazi Imagination
Professor Sir Richard Evans
War in the Nazi Imagination
Thursday 15 November 2012
Newton building, NTU City site
Lecture abstract:
War was central to the way the Nazis thought about Germany and the world. It was the key to rebuilding the German nation. For Hitler, the German defeat in World War I had to be made good, and a warlike spirit instilled into the German people after the pacifism of Weimar.
This lecture explored the Nazi representation of war in art, literature, politics and education, and argues that the Nazi vision of the future encompassed not final victory but war without end.
Speaker biography:
Richard Evans is Regius Professor of History at Cambridge University, where he has been President of Wolfson College since 2010.
He studied Modern History at Oxford, and was Professor of European History at the University of East Anglia, and Professor of History and Vice-Master at Birkbeck, University of London
