Airman raises Holocaust awareness with podcast series Published Feb. 12, 2009 LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, Texas -- Colonel Edward Westermann's, 737th Training Group commander, program was added Feb. 12 to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's podcast series, "Voices on Antisemitism." The series seeks to raise awareness about historical and contemporary antisemitism through interviews with distinguished opinion makers and leaders. Notable participants in the series include Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elie Wiesel, Madeleine Albright and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. "A lot of my research looks at the organizational culture and leadership, and how these organizations that were designed to protect and serve in the case of the police, or the military to provide military professional ethics, became perverted and how they were co-opted or joined in the conduct of atrocity," Colonel Westermann said. He has been teaching, studying and researching World War II German police activities for almost two decades, which naturally ties into the Holocaust. "I've had a long-term interest in the Holocaust, including teaching a course at the Air Force Academy," Colonel Westermann said. "A large part of my interest involves how professional organizations like the police and military in national socialist Germany were transformed and participated in mass murder." The program is posted on the museum's Web site, available at www.ushmm.org/antisemitism/voices.