Professor Tobias Straumann talks about "The rise of Hitler and the currentness of the 1930s".
Wednesday, 08. May 2019, 18:30 – 20:00 h
At the University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich, KOL-G-201 ( Aula)
The rise of right-wing parties in Europe has led many observers to warn of a relapse into the barbarity of the 1930s. How correct is this historical comparison? The lecture submits current theses to a critical examination and points to an often-neglected parallel that by all means provides cause for concern: the dissonance between international agreements and domestic realities.
Afterwards: Discussion on the topic with Heinrich Christen, historian
Tobias Straumann, born in 1966, is an economic historian and titular professor of modern history at the University of Zurich. He studied in Bielefeld, Paris and Zurich, was a senior lecturer at the University of Lausanne and spent visiting semesters at the University of California at Berkeley, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Oxford.