Trudy Gold
Hitler in Munich: The Road to Power
Summary
Trudy Gold explores how Hitler slowly built up his support and following, specifically focusing on the time between his arrival in Munich in 1913 and his ultimate ascension to power in 1933.
Trudy Gold
Trudy Gold was the CEO of the London Jewish Cultural Centre and a founding member of the British delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). Throughout her career she taught modern Jewish history at schools, universities, and to adult groups and ran seminars on Holocaust education in the UK, Eastern Europe, and China. She also led Jewish educational tours all over the world. Trudy was the educational director of the student resources “Understanding the Holocaust” and “Holocaust Explained” and the author of The Timechart History of Jewish Civilization.
That is a fascinating question, Tim. I’m going to give you a very quick, glib answer, but it’s a really important answer. And in fact, Dennis Davis will be giving a lecture on a subject, he’s calling it the Non-Jewish Jew, which is a book written by the great Isaac Deutscher, who was a Trotsky. Now the point is, you can certainly say that within Judaism there is a great deal of social justice, but the minute you become a communist, you throw your Judaism away. It’s true that many Jews as double outsiders saw the injustice of the world. And I think believing Judaism, they didn’t feel they could be part of the world that they saw as corrupt. And because they were literate, that’s why they’re so prominent, because in the main communist movements are working class movements.