Holocaust Researcher to Speak at Hood College

FREDERICK, Maryland—Holocaust researcher Elizabeth Baer will speak at Hood College on Nov. 8 to discuss her research regarding a related genocide in present-day Namibia.

Baer, Ph.D., research professor in English at Gustavus Adolphus College, will present her research at 7 p.m. in the Whitaker Campus Center Commons.

Thirty years before Hitler came to power, the Germans committed genocide in their African colony, the country we now call Namibia. Few people today know that some 80,000 indigenous people were killed there between 1904 and 1907. Drawing on research for her recent book, “The Genocidal Gaze: From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich,” Baer will show how this served as a prelude to the Nazi Holocaust. She will illustrate her presentation with historical photographs and maps.

Baer has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Holocaust studies, including links between imperialism and genocide, women and the Holocaust, and post-Shoah literature (Shoah is a Hebrew term for the Holocaust).

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Aaron Angello at 301-696-3211 or angello@hood.edu.

Media Contact