Frank Nicosia is Raul Hilberg Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont. Previously, he was Professor of Modern European and Middle Eastern history at Saint Michael’s College, and coordinator of the college’s honors program. He has published widely in the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, as well as in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont, and on the Executive Committee of the German Studies Association.
Hitler’s appointment as German Chancellor on January 30, 1933 began a chain of horrific events that sent not only Germany, but the entire world, into the abyss.
