Visiting professor of history Lutz Budrass (University of Bochum) reviews the whitewashing of national histories, including a discussion about how the history of the German aircraft industry has been manipulated to conceal the participation of aircraft industrialists in Nazi crimes. Dr. Budrass is a Senior Lecturer in Social, Economic, and Technological History at the Ruhr-University of Bochum who has published widely in the military, industrial, and business history of modern Germany and Europe. He is teaching in the Department of History as an Erasmus exchange professor in fall 2019, and was also a visiting exchange professor at CMU in 2010.

Sponsored by the CMU Department of History and Critical Engagements.

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