Baird participates in WWII veterans tribute
Jay W. Baird, professor of history at Miami University, was a keynote speaker Veterans Day, Friday, Nov. 11, at the eighth, and last, World War II Veterans Committee annual conference in Washington, D.C.
Baird, author of To Die For Germany: Heroes in the Nazi Pantheon, spoke on “The Führer and the German People.”
Baird, the former president of the German Studies Association, will soon publish a book that explores the aesthetics of fascism with emphasis on poetry and novels. Hitler’s War Poets, Literature and Politics in the Third Reich is due to be published by Cambridge University Press.
Baird, who is retiring at the end of this semester after more than 38 years in Miami’s history department, has won numerous honors in his long career, including being a three-time winner of a student-elected Outstanding Teaching Award. He also has been the recipient of Miami’s Benjamin Harrison Medallion for significant achievement in national and international education.
He attributed his invitation to the veterans conference to the influence of his longtime colleague John Dolibois, a former Miami vice president and ambassador to Luxembourg who is the last surviving interrogator of top-ranking Nazi’s prior to the Nuremberg trials. Dolibois was also scheduled to speak at the conference, but had to cancel for personal reasons.
Jay W. Baird, professor of history
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