PROFITS AND PERSECUTION: GERMAN BIG BUSINESS IN THE NAZI ECONOMY AND THE HOLOCAUST

MAY 8th, 2025

3:00 PM ET

Our webinars are designed to increase participants’ knowledge of Holocaust history, explore and access classroom-ready content, and support instructional practice to promote student learning and understanding of this complex history and its lasting effect on the world.

In this talk, renowned Holocaust researcher and author Peter Hayes, Emeritus professor at Northwestern University and the former chair of the academic committee at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, traces how the German corporate world became deeply implicated in the Nazi regime’s persecution, exploitation, and murder of Europe’s Jews and how few of these individuals later paid any price for their actions, thanks to the mistakes of American prosecutors, the onset of the Cold War, and a widespread cover up by German corporations that lasted until the 1990s. This webinar connects to Unit 9 on the Echoes & Reflections website.

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