Today, Monday, March 14, the world-renown scholar and historian Gerhard L. Weinberg will speak at Canisius on “Pius XII in World War II” at 7:30 p.m. in the Grupp Fireside Lounge. Professor Weinberg’s talk is sponsored by the Canisius College chapter of the Phi Alpha Theta, the national honor society for the study of history, as well as by the Canisius College History Club, the College All-College Honors Program, and the Canisius College Department of History.
Professor Weinberg will speak on the way in which the Vatican and Pope Pius XII responded to the challenge that the war and ensuing atrocities, including the Holocaust and the murder of an estimated 11 million civilian non-combatants during the war, presented to the authority of the Church and all civilized society.
Professor Weinberg is emeritus professor of history at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He is one of the world’s leading authorities on the history of World War and authored the prize-winning book A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II with Cambridge University Press in 1994, which won the George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association for the best book of 1994. He has also published two books on Nazi foreign policy from 1933 to 1939 with the University of Chicago Press, and is author of Germany, Hitler, and World War II and Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World II Leaders, both with Cambridge University Press.
Professor Weinberg is universally acknowledged as the preeminent diplomatic and military historian of the years from 1933 to 1945 and was one of the first to have unrestricted access to the captured war documents from Nazi Germany and its allies in World War II.
Submitted by: Larry Jones, PhD, professor, History
