Holocaust Historian to Speak at UNM

Geoffrey Megargee, author of “The War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941,” will speak on Tuesday, Oct 30, 2:30-3:30 p.m. in the Mesa Vista Hall History Common Room. He will present “Selective Realities. Selective Memories: The German General’s Postwar Recollections.”

Megargee is an Applied Research Scholar at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C.

His visit to UNM is sponsored by the University Honors Program, the History Department, Religious Studies and European Studies.

Media Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920; e-mail: cgonzal@unm.edu