Center for German and European Studies

Film Screening and Q&A: Goebbels and the Führer

Black and white image of logo for National Center for Jewish FilmWed., October 30, 2024
7:00 - 9:30 pm ET (US)
Schwartz 112, Brandeis University Campus

Co-sponsored by the National Center for Jewish Film.

About the Event

Film poster with Hitler and Goebbels on the frontGoebbels and the Führer tells the story of the dynamic interaction of Adolf Hitler and Goebbels from the eve of Kristallnacht to their suicides in the ruins of Berlin in 1945. The film depicts how Hitler and Goebbels wielded demagoguery, disinformation, and manipulation as weapons to devastating effect. The first serious feature film on Hitler in twenty years, Goebbels and the Führer was written and written and directed by German filmmaker Joachim A. Lang, with the support of Thomas Weber, who served as a consultant on the film.

There will be a Q&A with Thomas Weber after the screening of the film.

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About the Speaker

Professional photo of Thomas Weber with a scarf sitting seriouslyThomas Weber is Professor of History and International Affairs as well as the founding Director of the Centre of Global Security and Governance at the University of Aberdeen. He also is a Visiting Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University; an Associate Fellow of the Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies at the University of Bonn; a Senior Associate of the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Munk School for Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto; and a Member of the Security History Network at Utrecht University. His expertise lies in European, international, and global political history from the 19th century to the present.

A native of Breckerfeld in Westphalia, he earned his DPhil from the University of Oxford. He also has taught or has held fellowships at Harvard, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago, and the University of Glasgow.

Read more about Thomas Weber here.