Makeshift Murder: The Holocaust at its Peak - Peter Hayes

The USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research presents the 2020 Annual Shapiro Scholar Lecture by Peter Hayes (Professor of History and German and Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies at Northwestern University), the Center's 2019-2020 Sara and Asa Shapiro Scholar in Residence, presented at the University of Southern California on March 5, 2020, organized by the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research.
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Often described as "industrialized murder" that occurred in "factories of death," the Holocaust was at its murderous peak in 1942 something quite different: an improvised process carried out at ramshackle killing installations. In this lecture, Professor Peter Hayes will detail how and why the Nazi regime managed to kill an unprecedented number of people with ferocious speed, yet without applying significant quantities of German personnel or resources.