Shermans, and Tigers, and T-34s, Oh My! Playing Pretend and Playing WWII

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Pyle Center, Room 209, 702 Langdon St.
@ 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Event Poster: Shermans, and Tigers, and T-34s, Oh My! Playing Pretend and Playing WWIIHistorian Jeremy Best will discuss his research on the history of wargaming and historical memory of World War II and the Holocaust. As a prelude to playing some modern wargames, he will discuss the implications of a hobby obsessed with accuracy but built on forgetting.

RSVP requested to eframe@wisc.edu

Co-sponsored by, the George L. Mosse Program, the Center for European Studies, and the Department of History