Join Barbara Wahlberg for this 75 minute presentation provides a case study examining Nazi Germany and the United States during the 1930s, at a time when racism and eugenics were enshrined in law and practice. We will examine the national and historical contexts in which racism manifested in the two countries, and explore how the pseudoscience of eugenics as well as concerns about "racial purity" found its way into the laws of the United States and Nazi Germany.
Barbara Wahlberg has been a Holocaust and Genocide educator for over 30 years, a retired ELA teacher in Cranston Public Schools, a long-time board member of the Sandra Bornstein Holocaust Education Center, a 2002 USHMM Teaching Fellow and received the 2018 Genocide Educator of the Year Award for Rhode Island. She has served on the Rhode Island Commission on Holocaust and Genocide Education since its inception in 2021.
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