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Cycle of VWI Fellows’ Colloquia
The VWI fellows present their intermediary research results in the context of colloquia which are announced to a small audience and are open to a public audience with an academic and topical interest. The lectures are complemented by a response or commentary by an expert in the given field and are discussed with the other fellows.
Due to the previous lack of an appropriate space, the colloquia were held at other Viennese research and cultural institutions with a topical or regional connection to the given subject. From this circumstance was born the “VWI goes to …” format.
With the move to a new institute building at Rabensteig 3, the spatial circumstances have changed, so that the VWI is now happily able to invite other research and cultural institutions. Therefore, the VWI is now conducting its colloquia both externally and within its own building, in the framework of continued co-operation with other institutions.
The new cycle of fellows’ colloquia “VWI invites/goes to …” is not only able to reach a broader circle of interested persons, but moreover integrates the VWI further into the Viennese scholarly establishment, perhaps even crossing borders into the greater regional research landscape.
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| Christoph Dieckmann: Shoah, Warfare and Occupation 1938-1945 | |||
Tuesday, 10. January 2023, 16:00 - 18:00 Online: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85674335464?pwd=VFZSaUp2NDNtb3lyNHVxbENhYnM0Zz09
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VWI goes to Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Commented by Michael Wildt Christoph Dieckmann is currently Fortunoff VWI Senior Fellow and teaches at the University of Haifa in the Weiss-Livnat International Program of Holocaust Studies. His study ‘German Occupation Policy in Lithuania 1941-1944’ was awarded the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research in 2012. The English translation of this will be revised as part of the fellowship. He co-edited Der Dienstkalender Heinrich Himmler 1941/42 (1999). Michael Wildt, 1992-2009 Research fellow at the Research Center for the History of National Socialism in Hamburg and the Hamburg Institute for Social Research; 2009-2022 Professor for Modern German History at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Winner of the Prize of the Historisches Kolleg Munich 2022. Publications: Hitler’s Volksgemeinschaft and the Dynamics of Racial Exclusion. Violence against Jews in Provincial Germany, 1919–1939 (2012); An Uncompromising Generation. The Nazi Leadership of the Reich Security Main Office (2009). https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85674335464?pwd=VFZSaUp2NDNtb3lyNHVxbENhYnM0Zz09 Click here to download the invitation as PDF file. In cooperation with: |
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Historians have long examined the complex, close relationship between the Holocaust and the German war effort. Using Lithuania as a case study, Dieckmann takes a new look at this relationship that includes German occupation policy. In doing this, Dieckmann provides a more plausible explanation of the development of Germany’s murderous policies in Lithuania. Entangling warfare, occupation policy and the Shoah and integrating central as well as local perspectives Dieckmann's conceptual approach might possibly be applied to other countries and regions. In his lecture, Dieckmann will focus on German warfare during the year 1941, emphasizing the close relationship between alleged German military needs and German occupation policy in the occupied Soviet North. Working with previously underexamined German sources, he shows how the internal logic of German policy in 1941 resulted in mass crimes. Dieckmann plans to use his tenure as a Senior Scholar at VWI to extend his analysis of the Holocaust in Lithuanian through the integration of relevant testimonies from the Fortunoff Video Archive.
