Event Type

Hybrid Event (Online or in-person)

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Location

  • 7pm eastern time, Fordham University Lincoln Center, 155 West 60th St., New York City
  • New York, NY

Event Description

Murder in the Blackout: A Serial Killer in Hitler’s Berlin and the Coming of the Holocaust.

Prof. Benjamin Carter Hett, Hunter College; author of The Nazi Menace: Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Road to War; Burning the Reichstag; Death in the Tiergarten: Murder and Criminal Justice in the Kaiser’s Berlin; and other books.

September 5, 2025, 7:00 PM Eastern, Fordham University Lincoln Center, 155 West 60th St., New York City

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This free & open to the public talk will discuss the “S-Bahn Murder” Paul Ogorzow and the tactics used to find and capture him by the Berlin police, and how these tactics connected to the formulation of what would become the Holocaust.