PEOPLE'S UNIVERSITY: WWII - Class 7, "On the Home Front and Abroad: The Human Cost"

July 17, 2018
7:00pm - 7:00pm

TUESDAY, JULY 17, 2018 AT 7 PM

PEOPLE'S UNIVERSITY: World War II - Class 7
"On the Home Front and Abroad: The Human Cost"

Six million Jews and more than five million non-Jews, including Gypsies, homosexuals, blacks, and the physically and mentally disabled, were persecuted and murdered by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. But the human cost of "total war" didn’t stop there. From the U.S. internment of Japanese, German, & Italian citizens, to the Soviet forced labor gulags, to Japanese death marches and hell ships—the impact of the war on humankind is incomprehensible. Estimates of the final death toll, including military casualties, genocide, and war-related diseases and famine, range as high as 80 million people, as many as 50 million of whom were civilians.

Instructor: DR. JEFF RUTHERFORD is Assistant Professor of History at Wheeling Jesuit University. He earned his B.A. at SUNY at Binghamton, his M.A. at SUNY at Albany and his Ph.D. from University of Texas at Austin.

- Tuesday, July 17, 2018 - 
People's University classes start at 7 pm in the Library Auditorium. 

In keeping with the mission of public libraries as sanctuaries of free learning for all people, the Ohio County Public Library created The People’s University, a free program for adults who wish to continue their education in the liberal arts. The People’s University features courses — taught by experts in each subject — that enable patrons to pursue their goal of lifelong learning in classic subjects such as history, music appreciation, philosophy, and literature. Patrons may attend as many classes as they wish. There are no tests of other requirements and all programs are free and open to the public.

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