Oral history interview with Fred Hahn, [between 1988 and 1991?].

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Oral history interview with Fred Hahn, [between 1988 and 1991?].

The interview focuses on the Dr. Hahn's life and his teaching careeer since he came to the United States in 1938 in flight from HItler. He also talks about watching Lindberg land in Paris while he was studying earlier at the Sorbonne and how he came to Trenton State College. Topics also include his loss of many family members in the Holocaust, his courses on Russian history, Eastern Europe, socialism, and the Holocaust, changes to what was originally the Social Studies Department, his return to Europe as an exchange professor, changes to the College during his years, his impression of students in his graduate courses, and the student blockade in 1969. People mentioned include Adele Botts, Clayton Brower, Dr. Cohen, Dr. Gillian, Robert Heussler, and Charles Lindberg.

Transcript: 12 leaves ; 28 cm.Videorecording: 1 videocassette (VHS) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.

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Fred Hahn, Professor Emeritus of History, was born in Czechoslovakia in 1906, earned a doctor of law and political science from the University of Prague (1929) and taught at Trenton State College from 1964 to 1980. From the description of Oral history interview with Fred Hahn, [between 1988 and 1991?]. (Trenton Free Public Library). WorldCat record id: 657120332 ...

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