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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其他作者: Levinson, Bernard M. 1952- (Editor) ; Ericksen, Robert P. 1945- (Editor)
格式: Print 图书
语言:English
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出版: Bloomington, Indiana Indiana University Press [2022]
In:Year: 2022
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丛编:Studies in antisemitism
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B 德国 / 第三帝国 / 大学 / 人文科学 / 反犹太主义 / 纳粹主义 / 合作 / 历史 1933-1945
B 德国 / 大学 / 反犹太主义 / 纳粹主义 / 第三帝国 / 历史
IxTheo Classification:KBB German language area
TK Recent history
Further subjects:B Aufsatzsammlung
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总结: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