Event Highlights: The Grifter, the Gestapo, and the Jews
The subject of this lecture by Jonathan Zatlin, Associate Professor of History at Boston University, was the draft version of his work in progress entitled, ”The Grifter, the Gestapo, and the Jews: Impersonating Nazi Law Enforcement in 1942 Berlin.” The case of the counterfeit Gestapo officer is a cautionary tale of the incompetence of Nazi law enforcement and the centrality of racism to police work. Prof. Zatlin’s presentation was followed by comments by Julie Keresztes, PhD candidate in history at Boston University; Christoph Kreutzmueller, Senior Historian of the House of the Wannsee-Conference, Berlin; Anna Krylova, Associate Professor of Modern Russian History at Duke University, and Jonathan Wiesen, Professor of History at the University of Alabama. The event was hosted by BU’s Center for the Study of Europe and took place via Zoom on Thursday, February 4, 2021.