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Flanders Hall publishing, a news press that operated in Scotch Plains and was overseen by a Plainfield High School teacher of German ancestry, was once the largest Nazi printing press in the United States. With propaganda being streamlined from Nazi Germany itself, the press played an important role in U.S. involvement and opinions on the rise of Nazism. It also affected public opinion on the role the U.S. should play in the emerging global conflict that we now know as World War II.

Join us as we examine the key personalities that worked together to keep Flanders afloat, the ways in which this press shaped both American and New Jersey thought surrounding World War II and how it all came crashing down. 

Julia Mitchell, a graduate student in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Kean University, works as a graduate assistant in the Holocaust Resource Center. Julia graduated Summa Cum Laude from Keene State College in May 2023, earning degrees in Holocaust and Genocide Studies and English Literature. Her research interests include colonial studies, indigenous genocides and preservations of memory surrounding atrocity. 

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