The USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research presents this public lecture by Peter Hayes (who at the time of the lecture was Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor at Northwestern University). This lecture was presented at the University of Southern California on March 10, 2015.
Learn more about the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research here: dornsife.usc.edu/cagr
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Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor Peter Hayes (Northwestern University) examines antisemitism and homophobia as central components of Nazi racism.
Professor Hayes will describe the differing contexts, motives, objectives, and scales of the Nazi persecutions of European Jews and German gay men, and then show that similar justification, escalation, degradation, and lasting damage characterized each process. The lecture will conclude with an examination of the contrasting aftereffects of each form of persecution on the respective prejudices after World War II.