Course Description

Instructor: Susan Barnard

When Germany lost the Great War, a perfect storm was created. It brought together the most sinister men the modern had ever seen. These depressed malcontents wanted a messiah...Adolf Hitler was their man.

This course will trace the development of the Nazi Party, and profile the actors on this stage of horror. It will begin with Hitler's childhood, chronicle the events that led to World War II, the war, the Nazis in America, the Holocaust and will end at VE Day. The program is enhanced by hundreds of photos and maps.

Bio: Susan Kessler Barnard, an Atlanta native, has a BA in Journalism/Public Relations. She was a Certified Operating Room Technician (25 years) and was a librarian in the Atlanta History Center Library/Archives. She is the author of four books and a contributer of historical articles to several historical journals and newspapers. She began teaching and taking classes at Emory's Life Long Learning Institute (now OLLI) in the mid 1990s. She has visited Germany, and their concentration camps several times, and was a docent at The Breman Jewish Heritage Museum in the Holocaust Exhibit. She has taught classes on the Nazis and the Holocaust at OLLI several times.