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Understanding the Holocaust

The Nazi regime relied on long-standing strains of anti-Semitism as well as newer racial ideologies to gather support for their purposeful and highly systematic attempt to destroy the Jewish population in Europe. Beginning with an introduction to the roots of anti-Semitism in Europe, this course then explores the political, social and economic factors in Europe that made Adolf Hitler’s rise to power possible. It also examines the origins, development, and implementation of the Nazi Germany’s

George “Tip” G. Atkeson ’53

I sadly report that we lost George “Tip” G. Atkeson on April 21, 2023. He died under hospice care from the complications of a brain tumor at his home in Essex, Connecticut. A native of New Haven and a pre-collegiate graduate of Deerfield Academy, in college Tip majored in the distinctive subject of political and economic institutions and was a member of Fence Club. The son of an admiral, it was not surprising that after