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In 2017 The Faculties of Humanities and Theology appointed six honorary doctors. In the days leading up to the conferment ceremony on 2 June, a number of lectures and talks featuring the honorary doctors were held in Lund. Everything was recorded and is presented here as podcasts. Part 2 of 6: a lecture by Hartmut Lehmann.\n\nHartmut Lehmann is a German historian and honorary professor in church history at the Christian-Albrechts-Universit\xe4t in Kiel. He has been the director of the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C., and of the Max-Planck Institute for History in G\xf6ttingen. Lehmann is a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and member of the G\xf6ttingen Academy of Wissenschaften. For a long time, his focus has been on church history, in particular the Reformation and Reformation jubilees, pietism, as well as the church and national socialism.\n\nAnd national socialism is also at the center of the lecture Lehmann gave. The title is "Fatal Coincidences in 1933: Nazism\u2019s Triumph and Martin Luther\u2019s 450th Birthday". It was recorded at LUX on May 31, 2017.