Institute of Advanced Studies

Time of the Nazis: Past, present and future in the Third Reich

Abstract: This lecture focused on the ways in which the Nazi dictatorship attempted to consolidate its hold on the consciousness of its subjects by manipulating the collective awareness of time and history.

Biographical note: Dr Christopher Clark was educated at Sydney Grammar School and Sydney University and now is a Fellow of St Catharine's College and a Reader in Modern European History at the University of Cambridge. His publications include The Politics of Conversion. Missionary Protestantism and the Jews in Prussia, 1728-1941 (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 1995) and Kaiser Wilhelm II (Longman: Harlow, 2000). He is co-editor of Culture Wars: Catholic-Secular Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2003). His book Iron Kingdom. The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 (Allen Lane: London, 2006) was awarded the Wolfson Prize for History and the HSK-Buchpreis for Modern History.

The lecture series was hosted and sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Studies and History Discipline at UWA and forms part of the Dictators lecture Series.

- 15 August 2007