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Show u N I I T y Ping presents • • variant view of Holocaust By VERONICA GARNER JOURNAL STAFF WRlTER The relationships between antisemitism, Nazism, and the Holocaust were explored yesterday during the Distinguished Faculty Honor Convocation Lecture here. Assistant Professor of History Larry L. Ping, presented "Culture of Murder, Culture of Complicity: Anti Semitism and the Origins of the Holocaust," in the Randall L. Jones Theatre. "The Holocaust has been discussed many times, in many different ways, mainly from the perspective of the bureaucratic leaders. I will look at a different perspective, the perspective of the murderers, 11 said Ping. Ping presented an in-depth study, mainly from sources Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and The Final Solution in Poland, by Christopher Browning and Hitler's Willing Execution ers: Ordinary Germans and the · Holocaust, by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. Ping discussed the relationships leading to the Holocaust, and the psychological models of those who actually carried out mass murder. According to Ping, historians generally employ "Intentionalist" and "Functionalist" models to evaluate the relationship of anti-Semitism and National Socialism. The two models make different assumptions regarding Nazism and racial anti-Semitism, and both ignore the (continued on page 3) Ladies open loop play with win SUU forward fessica Littlefield gets off a shot over Oral Roberts forward fessica Rhoten in Centrum action last night as foe Hillock's charges won their inaugural Mid-Con Conference gam e 86-64. SEE PAGE 13. - ... Larry L._Ping |