Robert Wittman – The FBI’s ‘Real Indiana Jones’ and Recovering a Lost Nazi Diary
Webinar, April 20, 2022
World Without Genocide will host an online program in April. “Recovering a Lost Nazi Diary” will be held on Wednesday, April 20, 2022, from 7:00-9:00 pm CT. Register by 6:00 pm on April 20 at WorldWithoutGenocide.org/wittman
Robert Wittman, FBI agent, and art crime detective, will describe the global search for the diary of Alfred Rosenberg, ‘the man who made Hitler into Hitler.’ Rosenberg was the main author of Nazi racial theory and campaigns to persecute Jews. After the war, he was prosecuted at the 1946 Nuremberg trials. He was convicted of crimes against humanity, sentenced to death, and hanged.
Rosenberg’s detailed diary was used during the Nuremberg trials as evidence of his crimes, and then it went missing for more than 50 years. Wittman learned about the diary in 2001 and spent a decade hunting for it. The diary is now the property of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.
Mr. Wittman will describe the contents of the diary, insight into the Nazi rise to power, the decision to exterminate Europe’s Jews, the Nazi ideology of hate and violence, and the successful search.
The program is open to the public: $10 general public, $5 for students and seniors, $25 for Minnesota lawyers for 2 ‘elimination of bias’ CLE credits, and free to Mitchell Hamline law students. Clock hours for teachers, nurses, and social workers.