LYME, CT — Professor Rolf Wolfswinkel returns to the Lyme Public Hall Sunday, Oct. 20, at 2 p.m to talk about Germany after WWI and the early years of Hitler’s dictatorship 1933-1939. His talk is titled, The Price of Folly: Germany after WWI & The Hitler Years 1933-39.
Wolfswinkel will discuss the developments that began in November 1932, when German voters made Hitler’s Nazi Party the biggest in parliament, and the following years when Hitler abolished individual freedoms and established a totalitarian state.
Born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Dr. Wolfswinkel teaches Modern History at New York University and has recently moved to Lyme, where he is on the board of the Lyme Public Hall & Local History Archives.
This talk is sponsored by the Lyme Public Hall & Local History Archives, Inc. It is free and open to the public. The Lyme Public Hall is located at 249 Hamburg Road (Rte. 156) in Lyme, Conn.
For more information, visit www.lymepublichall.org,