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Supporters
  • The Beitler Family Foundation

  • BG(R) Raymond Bell, Jr.

  • The David Berg Foundation

  • Samuel M. Soref & Helene K. Soref Foundation

  • Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany

  • Mr. and Ms. Warren G. Keinath Jr.

  • TriWest Healthcare Solutions
Critical Partners
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Welcome to the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Mission

The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at West Point educates the Corps of Cadets about genocide and mass atrocity and inspires them as officers to the cause of prevention. Intrinsic to this mission is the imperative to better educate the country’s current and future military leaders on how genocides have occurred in the past and what can be done to prevent them in the future.
 
Vision
 
West Point’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies is the only center of its kind at the service academies and has already begun operating as an inter-academy hub. The center seeks to link all branches of the military, including the service academies, the Reserve Officer Training Corps and Department of Defense (DoD) advanced education programs, through research, curricular development, and common programming for the development of cadets and midshipmen. The center further serves to link the Armed Forces with civilian academic institutions and non-governmental entities. Thus, the center acts as a creator and facilitator, serving as a key resource for the DoD as the nation seeks to find better means of preventing mass atrocity. 
 
Objectives
  • The CHGS will offer a range of programming designed to teach the causes, contexts, and conse¬quences of the Holocaust and other instances of genocide;
  • It will instill within cadets a deep sense of history, ethics, and responsibility;
  • It will work across disciplines to produce innovative and wide-ranging approaches to the problem of mass atrocity;
  • It will produce practical, actionable knowledge useful to cadets, the Army, the DoD and the nation.
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Research & Internships
 
Research
 
Current Faculty Research
  • “Water Vulnerability and Mass Violence” – Dr. David Frey, Dr. Amy Krakowka, Dr. Robert Goldstein & Dr. Charles Thomas. Detail about this multi-disciplinary faculty/cadet research project can be found here.

  • “Human Rights, Espionage, and Holocaust Memory in Hungary, 1945-1953” – Dr. David Frey. This study focuses on Hungarian responses to US and international accusations of violations of human rights charters, and investigates ties between previously unacknowledged espionage, questions of rights and justice, and mobilization of Holocaust memory. Dr. Frey will be in Budapest during the Fall of 2012 doing archival research on this project.

  • “Ordinary Soldiers: A Case Study in Ethics, Law and Leadership for Tomorrow’s Officers” – Dr. Waitman Beorn, COL (R) Jody Prescott, Dr. David Frey, Ms. Gretchen Skidmore & Ms. Jennifer Ciardelli. This article, lesson, and packet of supplemental materials is specifically designed for military audiences. It uses the actions and experiences of the 1st Battalion, 691st Infantry Regiment, of the German Wehrmacht, performing rear area security duties in the first week of October 1941, in occupied Belarus. By examining responses of specific company commanders to eliminate Jews in their respective areas of operations, “Ordinary Soldiers” raises a host of legal, ethical, psychological, and historical questions of immediate relevance to today’s officers.

  • "Networks of Somali Pirate Capitalism in the Indian Ocean" – Dr. Charles Thomas & Dr. David Frey. Detail about this AFRICOM funded, network science-based historical study can be found by clicking here.
Recent and On-going cadet Research Projects and Theses
  • Regina DiMarco – “Health Care and Hygiene in the Ghettos. Jewish Medicine and Medical Ethics under Nazi Domination”

  • Natalia Gruenbaum – “The Beautiful Cockroach: How Hutu Power Ideology Normalized Violence Against Tutsi Women During the 1994 Rwandan Genocide and How Sexual Violence Indirectly Developed as a Result of Sexualized Propaganda and Ethnic Myth” and “The Myth of the Rwandan Genocide: Western Perceptions of African Tribalism and Ethnicity.”

  • Tara Lacson – “Sanctioned Discrimination: Church Complicity in the Rwandan Genocide”

  • Carl Rios – “The Spatial Distribution of Genocide” (with the Network Science Center)

  • Morgan Tucker – “Propaganda and Cultural Hatred”

  • Dan Zeller – “Ethnic Propaganda in Sudan: The Spark of Ethnic Cleansing”
 
Internships
 
The CHGS supports a variety of internships, research opportunities, and staff rides for cadets. Some are listed below, while others change annually. The Center promotes inter-departmental cooperation and prioritizes allowing cadets the opportunity to study genocide and mass atrocity by traveling abroad or to outstanding archives. For more information, contact the Center’s Director, David Frey or the Center’s Acting Director during the fall of 2012, LTC Ray Hriniko.
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