Forever Learning Institute

This course concerns the legacy of facism and conflict upon the German people, specifically the families and survivors of the Nazis, beginning with the Denazification Program initiated by the United States and its allies. Course consideration and discussion will include the Nuremberg Trials, military tribunals, executions and imprisonments, as well as the fate of German prisoners-of-war. Focus topics will be the refugee population and the Holocaust resettlement, the widows and “rubble” women living in devastated German cities, as well as the education of the German youth in post-war publications and media.