{"id":7279,"date":"2025-04-29T13:31:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T20:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cagr\/?page_id=7279"},"modified":"2025-04-29T13:31:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T20:31:17","slug":"griffin-williams","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cagr\/profiles\/griffin-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Griffin Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--scrolling-text-with-image \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--scrolling-text-with-image\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"text-image-container\">\n\n          \n      <div class=\"image-container\">\n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cagr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2024\/05\/Scrolling-Text-Image_Griffin-Williams_20170628-768x1024.jpg\"\n          srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cagr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2024\/05\/Scrolling-Text-Image_Griffin-Williams_20170628-768x1024.jpg 768w\"          sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      \n    <div class=\"text-container\">\n  \n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>Research Fellow<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n        \n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Griffin Williams\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n        \n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>2016-2017 USC Undergraduate Student Research Fellow<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">During his month-long fellowship, Williams, a junior history major at USC,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">built<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0on\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">research<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0he began wit<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">h Center director, Wolf Gruner<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0about prisoner escapes and death marches during the Holocaust.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">He primarily focused\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">on<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0death marches &#8211;\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">how Nazi officers treated the prisoners on the marches, what caused prisoner casualties and deaths, and how commonly-held narratives about death marches<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0may oversimplify what really\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">happened.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Two of the foremost authorities on death marches are Daniel\u00a0Blatman\u202f(<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">The Death Marches<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\">)\u202fand Daniel Goldhagen\u202f(<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Hitler\u2019s Willing Executioners<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\">), who suggest that death marches were a final act of Nazi cruelty intended to kill the remaining Jews \u2013 but Williams said the testimonies in the Visual History Archive offer a more nuanced view of death marches that suggest there was much more variation in how prisoners were treated than either of those scholars acknowledge.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:2,&quot;335559739&quot;:240,&quot;335559740&quot;:300}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Williams intends to turn the research he\u2019s conducted during his DEFY fellowship into his honors thesis, which he hopes will widen our perspective on both German and American behavior during the Holocaust. 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