April 2021 Evenings at Ease: Rise of the Nazi Party and Propaganda

Rise of the Nazi Party and Propaganda
Dr. Shelly Cline, Midwest Center for Holocaust Education
Perhaps the biggest misconception of Nazi Germany is that the Nazi party came to power in a landslide victory and overwhelming wave of public support. This program looks at the conditions of Germany in the 1920s and 1930s that made Nazism possible. It also explores many examples of propaganda used by the Nazis to gain the support of the people for their new vision of Germany.
Dr. Cline is the Historian and Director of Education at the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education in Overland Park, Kan. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. Her research focuses on the SS Aufseherinnen in the concentration camp system and the gendered perpetration of the Holocaust. Her research has been supported by grants from the University of Kansas (KU) and Universität Hamburg. Cline has been an instructor in the KU Humanities Program and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department. She also served on the faculties of the Kansas City Art Institute and University of Missouri Kansas City.
The 2021 Evenings at Ease series is made possible courtesy of the Eisenhower Foundation with generous support from the Jeffcoat Foundation.