{"id":5166,"date":"2008-01-24T16:17:58","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T23:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=5166"},"modified":"2012-11-20T12:03:27","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T19:03:27","slug":"historian-to-discuss-nazi-olympics-on-national-holocaust-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/historian-to-discuss-nazi-olympics-on-national-holocaust-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Historian to discuss &#8216;Nazi Olympics&#8217; on National Holocaust Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author and historian David Large will discuss his book\u00a0<em>Nazi Games: The Olympics of 1936<\/em>, during a presentation to mark National Holocaust Day.<\/p>\n<p>The free discussion will begin at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27, in the Gardner Auditorium of The W.A. Franke College of Business on the Northern Arizona University&#8217;s south campus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The history of the Holocaust continues to provide us with many lesson,&#8221; said\u00a0<strong>Gretchen McAllister<\/strong>, director of the Martin-Springer Institute, which is sponsoring the event along with NAU&#8217;s College of Arts and Letters. &#8220;What is our role as global citizens in a time when genocide continues? The Nazi Olympics provides a lens through which we can examine what role we played in the past and what roles we are playing today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An exhibition on the Nazi Olympics will be on display in the building lobby.<\/p>\n<p>Large is a professor of history at Montana State University in Bozeman. His specialty is modern German history, and his most recent books include\u00a0<em>Where Ghosts Walked: Munich&#8217;s Road to the Third Reich<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Berlin\u00a0<\/em>and<em>\u00a0And the World Closed Its Doors: One Family&#8217;s Struggle to Escape the Holocaust<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/historian-to-discuss-nazi-olympics-on-national-holocaust-day\/\">Author and historian David Large will discuss his book\u00a0Nazi Games: The Olympics of 1936, during a presentation to mark National Holocaust Day. The free discussion will begin at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27, in the Gardner Auditorium of The W.A. Franke College of Business on the Northern Arizona University&#8217;s south campus. &#8220;The history of the&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":5167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}