Frank Eyck Memorial Lecture in German History 2013:
February 4th, 2013
Dr. Christopher R. Browning is the Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Among the many influential monographs which he has published are Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and The Final Solution in Poland; Fateful Months: Essays on the Emergence of the Final Solution; The Path to Genocide, in 1992; and, his most recent work: Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers. He has given expert witness testimony in the trial of alleged Nazi perpetrators for the Canadian Department of Justice, the Australian Commonwealth Office of Public Prosecution, and the British War Crimes Branch. Professor Browning has won many awards and honours, most recently an honorary doctorate from Hebrew Union College. He is a former holder of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies prestigious J.B. and Maurice Shapiro senior visiting fellowship, and is a current member of the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.