Please join us for a conversation with the author of "Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties," David de Jong, moderated by Carson Phillips.

About the author:

In this landmark work of investigative journalism, David de Jong reveals the true story of how Germany’s wealthiest business dynasties amassed untold money and power by abetting the atrocities of the Third Reich. Using a wealth of previously untapped sources, de Jong shows how these tycoons seized Jewish businesses, procured slave laborers, and ramped up weapons production to equip Hitler’s army as Europe burned around them. Most shocking of all, de Jong exposes how America’s political expediency enabled these billionaires to get away with their crimes, covering up a bloodstain that defiles the German and global economy to this day.

About the moderator:

Carson Phillips, Ph.D., is a faculty member of Gratz College where he teaches graduate courses in the Holocaust and Genocide Studies program. He has received numerous scholarly awards and fellowships including the Fleischer Award, Gertner Award, the Klasner Fellowship and the BMW Canada Award for Excellence from York University; the Alfred Lerner Fellowship from the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous; and a Hess Faculty Seminar Fellowship from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He also completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute where he focused on post-Holocaust conceptualisations of gender in the occupied zones of Vienna between 1945 - 1955.