Historian to discuss Holocaust evidence

Christopher Browning, who is Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will discuss "Revisiting the Holocaust Perpetrators: A Look at New Evidence." The lecture is free and open to the public.

Browning is recognized internationally as an authority in National Socialist policy toward European Jews during World War II. For three decades he has conducted research in archives in the United States, Germany, Yugoslavia, and in Israel at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Remembrance Authority. His publications include Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland; The Path to Genocide; Fateful Months: Essays on the Emergence of the Final Solution; and The Final Solution and the German Foreign Office.

In the spring of 1999, Browning delivered the George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures at Cambridge University, which will be published under the title Nazi Policy, Jewish Labor, German Killers.

He's currently writing a two-volume study of Nazi Jewish policy as part of Yad Vashem's multivolume comprehensive history of the Holocaust. He also is working on a case study of the Jewish slave labor camp in Starachowice in central Poland, based on nearly 170 survivor testimonies.

In 1988, Browning testified for the prosecution in the second Canadian trial of Ernst Zündel, charged with the criminal offense of spreading "false news" likely to cause racial and social intolerance with publication of his pamphlet Did Six Million Really Die?

The Verne Moore Lectures are sponsored by the Department of History and have been funded by a gift from University alumnus Verne Moore '50 since 1996.

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