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SDSU Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Dr. Rolf Schulze will discuss his experience growing up in Germany during WWII and witnessing the indoctrination of fellow German children into Nazi ideology, wartime tragedies, and post-war reconstruction. Schulze will discuss his book, Dangerous Delusions: Lessons of a Lifetime, which compares modern examples of indoctrination to Nazi Germany.
About the Speaker: My memories go back to the early 1930s in Berlin, Germany, where I was born to a German father and English-born mother: World War II bombings, the Soviet Blockade of West Berlin, hunger and deprivation; Western democracy and education helped with our many losses, including my father’s early death in a Russian POW camp.
My mother's and brother's timely emigration to the USA in early 1950 was our new life which began with my service in the US Army during the Korean War and a much-appreciated US citizenship in 1953, GI-bill education, PhD in Sociology and the many studies—including Nazi-ism and other totalitarian ideologies—leading to my book about Dangerous Delusions.