Alys Stephens Center, Reynolds Kirschbaum Recital Hall

During the Second World War, Christian chaplains accompanied the German army wherever they went, from Poland to France, Greece, North Africa, and the Soviet Union. They were witnesses to atrocity and also helped normalize violence. Military chaplains played a key role in creating a narrative of righteousness that erased Germany’s victims and transformed perpetrators intoContinue Reading ...

  Please join us for a conversation with Menachem Kaiser, moderated by Kerry Madden-Lunsford (UAB Department of English). The panel will discuss his book Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure, which chronicles Kaiser’s journey recovering family property lost during the Holocaust. The story begins when Kaiser takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather’s battleContinue Reading ...