FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 18, 2012
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Rutland ~ Keene State College professor Paul Vincent will consider the methods used by the Nazi regime to influence German
society prior to World War II in a talk at
Rutland Free Library
on January 2. His talk, "Daily Life in Prewar Nazi Germany," is part of the Vermont Humanities Council’s First Wednesdays lecture series and takes place
at 7:00 p.m.
Focusing on the prewar experience of non-Jewish citizens, Dr. Vincent will examine how
ideology and terror undermined human dignity, numbed self-awareness, and atomized German society.
Dr. C. Paul Vincent is Professor of Holocaust Studies and History at Keene State College and chairs the baccalaureate program in Holocaust and
Genocide Studies. He is the author of two books: The Politics of Hunger: The Blockade of Germany, 1915-1919 (Ohio University Press, 1985) and A Historical Dictionary of Germany's Weimar Republic, 1918-1933 (Greenwood Press, 1997).
The Vermont Humanities Council’s First Wednesdays series is held on the first Wednesday of every month from October
through May, featuring speakers of national and regional renown. Talks in
Upcoming talks in Rutland include “McKibben on Climate Change” with author and environmentalist Bill McKibben on February 6; “Fiction’s
Getting to the Truth: Chris Bohjalian’s The Sandcastle Girls, Family History, and Armenian Genocide” with acclaimed novelist
Chris Bohjalian on March 6; and “Literary Paris: the 1920s in the City of Light” with Dartmouth professor Barbara Will on April 3.
The Vermont Department of Libraries is the statewide underwriter of First Wednesdays.
Rutland Free Library is sponsored by Friends of the Rutland Free Library and
For more information, contact Rutland Free Library at 802.773.1860, or contact the Vermont Humanities Council at 802.262.2626 or [log in to unmask],
or visit www.vermonthumanities.org.
First Wednesdays is also presented in eight other communities statewide: Brattleboro (at Brooks Memorial Library); Essex Junction (at Brownell
Library); Manchester (at First Congregational Church, hosted by Mark Skinner Library); Middlebury (at Ilsley Public Library); Montpelier (at Kellogg-Hubbard Library); Newport (at Goodrich Memorial Library); Norwich (at Norwich Congregational Church, hosted
by Norwich Public Library and Norwich Historical Society); and at St. Johnsbury Athenaeum. The program is free, accessible to people with disabilities and open to the public.
Rutland First Wednesdays listing
First Wednesdays Brochure
The Vermont Humanities Council is a private nonprofit working to bring the power and the pleasure of the humanities to all Vermonters—of every
background and in every community. The Council strives to make
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