Secrets and Revelations: The German Foreign Ministry and the Final Solution

Abstract

Moshe Zimmermann is Professor of German History and Director of the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of numerous books and articles about nationalism, antisemitism, the history of sports, film and German-Jewish history, as well as about the Holocaust, collective memory in Germany and Israel, and German-Israeli relations. Prof. Zimmermann was on the five-member independent research committee charged with investigating the German Foreign Ministry during and after the Nazi era and co-author of the book that emerged from the committee’s work, Das Amt und die Vergangenheit: Deutsche Diplomaten im Dritten Reich und in der Bundesrepublik. This text has been adapted from his address before the Israel Council on Foreign Relations on December 6, 2010.