The Hugo Valentin Lecture 2004: Professor Wolfgang Benz

The third Hugo Valentin Lecture was given by Professor Wolfgang Benz. The lecture was titled Antisemitism in Europe: Traditions, Structures, Manifestations. In it, Professor Benz dealt with a topic that Hugo Valentin himself devoted a large part of his time to and which is once again very topical – Antisemitism in Europe.

His research has ranged over a number of aspects of contemporary German history: the German resistance to Hitler's regime; the political history of occupied Germany and the early Federal Republic; the expulsion of the Volksdeutsche in the wake of World War II. He studied the victims of National Socialism in the book Dimension des Völkermords (1991). From Benz's extensive output, Feindbild und Vorurteil: Beiträge über Ausgrenzung und Verfolgung (1995) can also be mentioned. He was one of the initiators of the journal Dachauer Hefte. Since 1990, Benz heads the Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung at the Technische Universität, Berlin.