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The Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust & Genocide Studies is an interdisciplinary research centre within the University of Leicester. https://le.ac.uk/stanley-burton

Eighty-one years ago, Adolf Hitler retreated into the study of his Berlin bunker and shot himself in the head. Yet, despite the efficacy of that bullet, his fate has been shrouded in speculation and mythmaking. A protracted search for definitive proof of death has helped keep him very much 'alive' in the public imagination, and there have been various efforts to reenact, or reimagine, Hitler's demise across popular culture. As one film critic once put it, 'every decade or so . . . the dictator has to be hauled out of the ground, propped up and slain again, just to make sure he’s [truly] dead'.

To enlighten our understanding, Dr Caroline Sharples (Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Roehampton), will explain the persistence of public discourse around the death of Adolf Hitler. She will speak on how his demise was anticipated by Allied audiences during the Second World War, mourned by loyal National Socialists in 1945, and subsequently represented in postwar popular culture. She will also demonstrate how applying a cultural history lens to this topic exposes the emotional investment that ‘ordinary people’ had placed in the prospect of Hitler meeting a ‘fitting end’, and the meanings that his death held for different audiences.

The EHRI-UK National Research Fellowship Programme is designed to support and stimulate Holocaust research conducted by researchers, archivists, librarians, curators, and early career scholars, especially PhD candidates with limited resources, based at institutions in the United Kingdom and British Isles. EHRI-UK Research Fellowships cover a stipend for travel, accommodation and subsistence for access lasting between 1 and 4 weeks at one of the following host institutions:

The Wiener Holocaust Library (London)

Holocaust Centre North (Huddersfield)

The National Archives (London)

The Imperial War Museum (London)

The Lord Mayor of Leicester, Cllr Teresa Aldred, will join other local dignitaries at De Montfort University for an evening of reflection and commemoration to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.

Students from Beauchamp College will talk about their experiences of visiting Auschwitz, while there will also be music from Caroline Salinger and an address on this year’s theme, ‘Bridging Generations’, by Professor Aubrey Newman, former director of the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

The winning entries in a schools’ essay-writing competition – the Paul Winstone Memorial Competition - will also be read out.

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In this discussion, Professor Gregor will reflect on what the study of orchestras and their audiences can tell us about the social and cultural history of Nazi Germany more generally. He will reflect on how the regime's attempts to engineer a new 'listening community' in the concert hall from 1933 onwards into dialogue with wider questions surrounding the transformation - or not - of German subjectivities during the Nazi era. Dispensing with belletristic conceits regarding the concert hall as a space of political and emotional retreat, he will share insights on how the mobilisation of German society behind the politics of the regime was pursued in the domain of classical music.