Wed, Jun 14
|Washington
Profs & Pints DC: When Nazis Prowled Our Coasts
Learn of a scary time when Nazi Germany sank ships just off our beaches.
Time & Location
Jun 14, 2023, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Washington, 801 E St NW, Washington, DC 20004, USA
About the event
Profs and Pints DC presents: “When Nazis Prowled Our Coasts,” a look at how Hitler brought war to America, with Kevin Matthews, who teaches courses on World War II as an assistant professor of European history at George Mason University.
A German submarine surfaces in New York’s harbor. Nazi saboteurs armed with explosives land on a Florida beach with orders to blow up factories in Tennessee and dams on the Ohio River. American ships are sunk in broad daylight while vacationers look on from New Jersey to Virginia Beach, from the Outer Banks to Key West.
It wasn’t the plot of a bad movie. Such events actually happened during the early months of 1942, helping to explain why watch towers still stand near the beaches of Delaware and New Jersey today.
Come learn about this forgotten episode of our nation’s World War II past with Professor Kevin Matthews, who previously gave…