Welcome to Getting Curious. I'm Jonathan Vines and every week I sit down for a

40-minute conversation with a really inexpertor to learn all about something that makes me

curious. Today I'm very excited to be bringing you getting

creases first ever to our episode. I'm joined by Associate Professor Pascal R. Boss

from the Department of Dramatic Studies at the University of Texas, Austin,

where I ask, do we understand how the Holocaust happened?

Welcome to Getting Curious. I'm Jonathan Vines. Welcome, Pascal Boss, our guest who is a

PhD honey. She's an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin and you specialize

in the Holocaust Genocide specifically with gender and specifically like Germany, Germanic studies.

Yes, and I'm really interested in memory. So I'm less of a historian than somebody who really

looked at the after effects of the Holocaust on culture, individuals, all of that.

Now, one startling thing that I was just reading is this article that MPR did back in 2018,

April of 2018, that said that 22% of millennials say they haven't heard of the Holocaust,

which to me is a shocking statistic. It's something that I've obviously learned about known about

I think since I've learned about history, I think like fourth, fifth grade I was starting to

learn about what the Holocaust was. And I think part of the question that I had and that I've

wanted to cover is what happened to Germany and Germans, German soldiers, the higher

ups of the third Reich, what happened to a lot of those people that perpetuated one of the worst

genocides in the history of the ever. And so that was kind of what I wanted to ask. And I think

you know, you have such an incredible diverse background and ability to speak to these things.

So I'm just so excited to talk to you. Thank you so much for coming to and giving us your time.

I'm so grateful. But yeah, so I think there's just so many areas where we can link into this. But

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