During a 6-year intensive investigation Brazilian-born Julie Catterson Lindahl discovered her family’s role in National Socialism and the SS. Her journey of discovery has taken her to Germany, Poland and Latin America, the place of her birth. The focus of her work has been to understand the process of radicalization, and the reverberations of war and violence on the generations that followed. In this lecture Lindahl focuses on the truth about the past she uncovered, what led her to uncover it and what the relevance of this story is for the times we live in.

Julie Lindahl (@JulieLindahl) is an author and social entrepreneur living in Sweden. In 2015 she wrote a first autobiographical account of her six-year journey into her family’s past in relation to National Socialism and the SS entitled The Pendulum: In Search of Truth, which has since then been used as learning material by schools in the U.S. and been featured by National Public Radio Boston. She is a recipient of the Stevens Traveling Fellowship 2015-16 awarded to her by Wellesley College, USA, and Honorary Research Associate, University College London, 2013-15. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Wellesley College, was a Fulbright scholar in Germany and holds a Master of Philosophy in International Relations from Oxford University. Julie is the founder of Stories for Society, a non-profit which works with story-making to examine complex social issues.

David Motadel (@DavidMotadel) is an Assistant Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He works on the history of modern Europe and Europe’s relations with the wider world.

The Institute of Global Affairs (IGA) (@LSEIGA) at LSE creates a dedicated space for research, policy engagement and teaching across multiple disciplines to pioneer locally-rooted responses to global challenges.

Founded in 1954, the Department of International History (@lsehistory) is one of the youngest departments at LSE. But in its short life, it has risen to become one of the top five university history departments in the UK, thanks to both its internationally renowned graduate programme and research record.

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