The Betrayal of the Humanities: The University during the Third Reich (Studies in Antisemitism)

By: Alan E. Steinweis and Suzanne L. Marchand and Christopher J. Probst and Bernard M. Levinson and Anders Gerdmar and Thomas Schneider and Johannes Renger and Bettina Arnold and Oren Gross and Michael Cherlin and Emmanuel Faye and Robert P. Ericksen and Aniko Szabo and Franklin Hugh Adler and Alvin H. Rosenfeld

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Synopsis: 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 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.