UTC History majors spend their summer working to recover and make sense of World War II history in Germany.
Last summer, Grace Allen and Stephen Scott, two UTC History majors spent two weeks in Thuringia, Germany, where they worked with other students from around the world at a former Nazi concentration camp: Mittelbau-Dora. They helped with the excavation and preservation of the site.
Guerry Professor of History John Swanson explained “It’s a huge concentration camp, but it’s not one that people usually think of…It means that the camp wasn’t turned into a museum long ago.” Dr. Swanson was also there for several days at the project site.
For more on this incredible experience, check out the full blog post here. There’s even video from a documentary featuring the student workers as they helped with the project.