The Great Debate, 1939â1941: How Harry Warner, Ernst Toller, and Alvin York Helped Win âThe Great Debateâ for American Interventionists
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
The Jewish Museum of Maryland
15 Lloyd Street
Baltimore, MD 21202
Ken Sutak, author of Cinema Judaica: The War Years, will explore how three unexpected men influenced the outcome World War II. Harry Warner, president of Warner Bros, Ernst Toller émigré Prussian-Jewish playwright and Alvin York, the immortal Sergeant York of WW I fame, who later became the most important interventionist spokesperson during âThe Great Debate.â These three men were in the forefront of those who managed to change popular American opinion regarding World War II and help prepare the country for war.