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EVENT NEWS RELEASE/April 16, 2008

Boise State Speaker to Address Genocide in World War II

Author Geoffrey Megargee will speak on “A Blind Eye and Dirty Hands: The Wehrmacht’s Crimes in the USSR” at 7 p.m. April 22 in Room 106 of the Liberal Arts Building at Boise State University. The address is free and open to the public. The Liberal Arts Building is just west of the Special Events Center.

Megargee’s lecture will focus on the links between the military campaign and genocide in the planning and execution of the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi armed forces in 1941.

Megargee is the author of “War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941” and “Inside Hitler’s High Command,” which won the Society for Military History’s 2001 Distinguished Book Award. He currently serves as editor in chief for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s multi-volume “Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945” and is a presidential counselor for the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.

This lecture is sponsored by the Boise State Department of History and the Campus Outreach lecture program of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies.

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Media Contact: Kathleen Craven, University Communications, (208) 426-3275, kcraven@boisestate.edu

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Last reviewed on Wednesday, April 16, 2008