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SUNY Potsdam professor to offer lecture on German Revolution

Posted 6/7/18

POTSDAM – SUNY Potsdam history professor Axel Fair-Schultz will deliver the program "The End of World War I and Germany's Revolution, 1918-1923" on Sunday, June 10 at 2 p.m. at the Potsdam Library. …

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SUNY Potsdam professor to offer lecture on German Revolution

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POTSDAM – SUNY Potsdam history professor Axel Fair-Schultz will deliver the program "The End of World War I and Germany's Revolution, 1918-1923" on Sunday, June 10 at 2 p.m. at the Potsdam Library.

One hundred years ago in the Fall of 1918, the German people overthrew the Kaiser's government, demanding not only an immediate end to the war (The Great War, now known as World War I) but also a new social order based on political and economic democracy, while the revolutionary left supported these goals.

This was a popular uprising of the German people from below. Centrist German politicians then formed a tactical alliance with the far Right. And thus, they unwittingly helped pave the way for the triumph of Adolf Hitler and Nazism a decade and a half later.

Axel Fair-Schultz was born and raised in Germany. Prior to coming to Potsdam, NY, he lived in Potsdam, Germany, being associated with the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies and earlier, the Center for Historical studies there.

Teaching at SUNY Potsdam since 2006, he has authored/co-authored 4 books on German history and is currently writing "A Peoples' History of the Cold War".

This program is the presentation of the Annual Meeting of the Friends of the Potsdam Museum.

It will be held at the Potsdam Public Museum, 2 Park Street, Potsdam Civic Center. This free program is open to the public and delicious refreshments will be served.

The museum is open Tuesday through Friday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

For more information, call the museum at 315-265-6910.