The Heidelberg Myth

In this work which examines both nazification and denazification of a major German university, Steven Remy offers a sobering account of the German academic community from 1933 to 1957.

Autorentext
Steven P. Remy is Associate Professor of History, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Klappentext
German social, intellectual, and political history, as well as to works on collective memory in societies emerging from dictatorship.


Zusammenfassung
In the first work to examine both nazification and denazification of a major German university, Remy offers a sobering account of the German academic community from 1933â1957. This book details how extensively the university's professors were engaged with National Socialism and how effectively they frustrated postwar efforts to ascertain the truth.

Inhalt
Preface Introduction: The Swastika in the Ivory Tower 1. Embracing National Socialism 2. The "German Spirit" in Scholarship 3. The National Socialist University at War 4. Constructing the Myth 5. The Limits of Denazification 6. Whitewashing the Ivory Tower 7. A Culture of Forgetting Conclusion: Complicities and Silences Appendix A. The Structure of the German University Appendix B. Dissertations Supervised by Paul Schmitthenner, 1932-1941 Archival Sources Notes Index

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