A Swiss historian and author on Nazism will serve as a visiting professor for Holocaust studies at a university in Frankfurt, Germany. Johann Wolfgang Goethe University said Philippe Burrin will hold the first professorship in Germany “dedicated exclusively to the history and effects of the Holocaust.”
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