The Betrayal of the Humanities

The Betrayal of the Humanities

by Alan E. SteinweisSuzanne L. Marchand Christopher J. Probst and others
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 06/09/2022

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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? Did they endorse the regime? 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 howindividual 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.

ISBN:
9780253060808
9780253060808
Category:
Jewish studies
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
06-09-2022
Language:
English
Publisher:
Indiana University Press

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