What History Teaches: Nazi Laws, From Democracy to Dictatorship to Genocide

Investigate the legislative means by which the Nazi Party and its leader, Adolf Hitler, took the country from the democratic Weimar Republic to the dictatorship it became, the anti-Jewish Nazi laws of the time, and the Nazi court system.

Featured speaker: Cathy Lesser Mansfield is a Professor of Law. She has served on the faculties of Drake University Law School, Georgetown Law School, Case Western Reserve University, and Washburn University. Professor Mansfield was a Silberman Fellow at the United State Holocaust Memorial Museum, and is a Distinguished Fellow at The Consortium for the Research and Study of Holocaust and the Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Center for National Security and Human Rights Law.

Presented by the Alabama Holocaust Education Center

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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.