How Could This Happen? A Wake-Up Call with Götz Aly and Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook
Götz Aly is one of the most renowned experts on the history of the Nazi era and the Holocaust. How Could This Happen? Germany 1933–1945 is his opus magnum. With great precision, he describes the methods Nazi rulers used to turn millions of Germans into obedient enforcers and war-jaded participants – using mechanisms that seem worryingly relevant today. At phil.COLOGNE he joins political scientist Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook, an expert on US politics. In Der amerikanische Weckruf [“American Wake-Up Call”], Clüver Ashbrook analyzes President Trump’s authoritarian restructuring and the erosion of democracy, identifying early signs of the same pattern in Europe. On stage, the two will explore the underlying conditions that give rise to authoritarian powers, in the past and today. Host: Wolfram Eilenberger
Contributors
Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook
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Götz Aly
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Wolfram Eilenberger
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Date:
Sunday
07. June 2026
17:00 -
Pre € 27 | 23 (ermäßigt)
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