A history of hatred
By Sarah Rogozen
July 10, 2011 8:59 p.m.
July 10, 2011 – If you thought you had bad neighbors, consider the small towns in Germany that Assistant Professor of Economics Nico Voigtlaender studies. He was coauthor on a recent paper that found the descendants of people who lived in areas that persecuted their Jewish populations during the medieval Black Death were more likely to collaborate with the Nazis 600 years later. [2:17]
