Wed, Jan 21
|Online Webinar
What History Teaches: Lessons from the Earliest Resistance to Nazism
Who were the early resisters to Hitler and Nazism? What compelled them to sound the alarm on a fringe political group? How and why did they fail to stop them? And what lessons can draw from it for our own time?
Time & Location
Jan 21, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Online Webinar
About
From the moment that he stepped onto Germany’s political stage in the early 1920s, Adolf Hitler faced resistance. Cartoonists depicted him as a clown, a butcher, and a knock-off version of Mussolini. One playwright portrayed him as a crazy barber building a cult following with elaborate, unfulfillable promises. One writer produced a history of Nazism in which he described Hitler as a “lazy schoolboy,” among other things. This was all prior to Hitler’s seizure of power in January 1933.
Featured speaker: Luke Berryman, Founder of The Ninth Candle, a nonprofit that works with schools across America to improve Holocaust Education and author of his upcoming book, Resisting Nazism.
Presented by the Alabama Holocaust Education Center and The Ninth Candle
This is part of powerful webinar series, hosted by Holocaust museums and education centers across North America, exploring how democracy eroded and extremism took root in 1930’s Germany—and the urgent lessons we can draw today. All sessions are free 60 minute Zoom webinars. Click on each individual lecture title for more information about additional upcoming webinars and to register for a Zoom link.
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February 11 | 9:00am PST | Echoes and Reflections
Art and Experience in a Fragmented World
March 11 | 9:00am PST | Alabama Holocaust Education Center and Holocaust Education Resource Council
Nazi Laws, From Democracy to Dictatorship to Genocide
April 8 | 10:00 am PST | Alabama Holocaust Education Center