Eighty years after the Nuremberg Trials, this program revisits a vital and timely question: Can images be criminal?
Military historian and legal scholar Dr. Mark M. Hull, Ph.D., J.D., FRHistS, FRSA (Professor, Department of Military History, US Army Command and General Staff College, retired; Advisor, Courtroom 600 Project) will explore how propaganda in Nazi Germany was not only spoken or written, but also drawn, filmed, and mass-distributed.
His highly visual presentation will examine the postwar denazification cases of:
Unlike Julius Streicher—hanged at Nuremberg for incitement through his newspapers, speeches, and children’s books—these visual propagandists largely escaped similar accountability. Their cases reveal the profound difficulties of prosecuting persecution by image.
Drawing on newly uncovered historical evidence and connecting it to modern parallels—from Charlottesville to the spread of digital hate memes—Dr. Hull traces the enduring power of visual propaganda.
This program asks: What responsibility do artists, media figures, and creators bear when their images fuel atrocity? And what lessons must we carry forward as we commemorate the legacy of Nuremberg?
12:00pm EST in Jamestown, Washington DC, and New York // 17:00GMT in London, Leicester, and Cambridge // 18:00 CET in Nürnberg // 11:00am CST in Chicago and Independence
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