The betrayal of the humanities: the university during the Third Reich

Zusammenfassung: "How did the academy react to the rise, dominance, and ultimate fall of Germany's Third Reich? Did German professors of the humanities have to tell themselves lies about their regime's activities or its victims to sleep at night? Or did they look the other way, whethe...

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Collaborateurs: Levinson, Bernard M. 1952- (Éditeur intellectuel) ; Ericksen, Robert P. 1945- (Éditeur intellectuel)
Type de support: Imprimé Livre
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Bloomington, Indiana Indiana University Press [2022]
Dans:Année: 2022
Collection/Revue:Studies in antisemitism
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Allemagne / Troisième Reich / Université / Sciences humaines / Antisémitisme / National-socialisme / Collaboration / Histoire 1933-1945
B Allemagne / Université / Antisémitisme / National-socialisme / Troisième Reich / Histoire
RelBib Classification:KBB Espace germanophone
TK Époque contemporaine
Sujets non-standardisés:B Recueil d'articles
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Résumé:Zusammenfassung: "How did the academy react to the rise, dominance, and ultimate fall of Germany's Third Reich? Did German professors of the humanities have to tell themselves lies about their regime's activities or its victims to sleep at night? Or did they look the other way, whether out of deliberate denial or out of fear for their own personal safety? The Betrayal of the Humanities: The University during the Third Reich is a collection of groundbreaking essays that shed light on this previously overlooked piece of history. The Betrayal of the Humanities accepts the regrettable news that academics and intellectuals in Nazi Germany betrayed the humanities, and explores what went wrong, what occurred at the universities, and what happened to the major disciplines of the humanities under National Socialism. The Betrayal of the Humanities details not only how individual scholars, particular departments, and even entire universities collaborated with the Nazi regime but also examines the legacy of this era on higher education in Germany. In particular, it looks at the peculiar position of many German scholars in the post-war world having to defend their own work, or the work of their mentors, while simultaneously not appearing to accept Nazism"--(Provided by publisher.)
ISBN:0253060788