IkeLibrary's video: September 2018 Lunch Learn: Forced Freedom presentation by Elizabeth Wenger

September 2018 Lunch & Learn Presenter: Elizabeth Wenger Title: Forced Freedom Elizabeth Wenger discusses post-war recovery issues after victory in Europe during WWII. The Allies in Germany faced the challenge of how to end the spread of Nazi propaganda without restricting freedom of speech as Germany returned to democracy. This program looks at America's creative responses to the problem and how they shaped the post-war period in ways still evident today. Wenger received her PhD from UC Berkeley in 2015 and has taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago and at Berkeley. In addition to her volunteer role at the Eisenhower Presidential Library she is teaching American history at Friends University in Wichita. Wenger is currently working on a project related to post-WWII censorship in Poland and East Germany.