Talk on German plunder of Jewish property

4:48 p.m., Oct. 4, 2004--Walter Rummel, a senior archivist at the Landeshauptarchiv in Koblenz, Germany, will discuss "The Great Plunder: Expropriation and Restitution of Jewish Property in the Rhineland, 1938-55," from 12:30-1:45 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 5, in 203 Munroe Hall, as part of the History Workshop in Technology, Society and Culture.

The event is free and open to the public.

Rummel is the author of Peasants, Lords and Witches: Social Historical Studies of Witch Persecution in Sponheim and Electoral Trier (1991) and “Ceded to the Reich” “To Compensate the Entitled”: Appropriation and Restitution of Jewish Property in the Rhineland-Palatinate Region, 1938-53 (2001). He is currently finishing a book on the Prussian bureaucracy’s relationship with Rhenish rural communities in the 19th Century.

A Fulbright Fellow at Yale University and a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, Rummel also has taught at the universities of Cologne and Koblenz.

The event is sponsored by the Department of History and the Continental European Studies Program. For more information, call (302) 831-2371.

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