This classic book examines the role of leading scholars -- philosophers, historians, and scientists -- in Hitler's rise to power and eventual war of extermination against the Jews. Written in 1946 by one of the greatest scholars of European Jewish history and culture, it is now reissued with a new introduction by the prominent historian Martin Gilbert.
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Original Language: Yiddish
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An Absorbing and Intriguing Indictment of German Academics!,
By Barron Laycock "Labradorman" (Temple, New Hampshire United States) - See all my reviews (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Hitler's Professors: Second Edition (Paperback)
Interestingly enough, I came across this book just after finishing Victor Klemperer's wonderful two-volume work on life in Nazi Germany as a forcibly retired German Jewish professor. All I read here made more convinced of the wisdom in Klemperer's lasting bitterness over the co-option and collaboration by many non-Jewish academics by the national Socialists. In fact, he says at one point that he can forgive almost everyone but the academic fellow-travelers of the Third Reich, who in Klemperer's mind had succumbed too easily to their cowardice, their fears, and their ambitions rather than listen to their hearts, their morals, and their intellects, for they knew better and should have acted better. This is an interesting if somewhat limited book, one that gives example after example of individuals so frightened by the "thumbscrews in the basement" of the Nazi headquarters that they jumped voluntarily into compliance with a whole range of horrific and hideous affronts on knowledge, truth, and acceptable behavior to either save their own skin, or even worst, to advance in the coming Nazi thousand-year Reich. Yet, as despicable as such instances are (and there were a lot of them), one must also remind oneself of the terrible existential crisis such circumstances force on frail, limited, and ordinary human beings, many of whom had the same kinds of vulnerabilities and human weaknesses as the rest of us. It is easy to condemn them, but much harder to look away. However, none of this is meant to suggest that any of these cretins should be forgiven or that anything they did was less than immoral and inhumane; instead it is to suggest that the real crime lay in allowing these horrific circumstances to arise in the first place. When citizens let apathy and inconvenience get in the way of taking the trouble of safeguarding their society's rules of law, liberties, and acceptable ways of behaving, this is what inevitably occurs, whether in Nazi Germany, Bosnia, or Kosovo. This book's true message is a timeless one; each of us must act as responsible citizens to safeguard the rights, freedoms and privileges of all. For whenever anyone, even the least of us, is allowed to suffer outside the law, we all, regardless of our position, our influence, or our wealth, are in danger.
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This is a very informative text on the situation at German universities during the Nazi period. It discusses who the people are, what they did and where they ended up after WWII
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This study is a report on the part of German scholarship in Germany's crimes against the Jewish people. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
eastern space, racial science, occupied eastern territories, race student Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
National Socialist, Government General, Propaganda Ministry, Walter Frank, New York, Soviet Union, Alfred Rosenberg, Adolf Hitler, German Reich, White Russia, Deutsche Akademie, Eugen Fischer, Frankfort Conference, Hans Frank, Third Reich, Nuremberg Laws, Foreign Ministry, Carl Schmitt, Peter-Heinz Seraphim, Walter Gross, Eastern Jewry, Middle Ages, Gerhard Kittel, Governor General, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt New!
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This study is a report on the part of German scholarship in Germany's crimes against the Jewish people. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
eastern space, racial science, occupied eastern territories, race student Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
National Socialist, Government General, Propaganda Ministry, Walter Frank, New York, Soviet Union, Alfred Rosenberg, Adolf Hitler, German Reich, White Russia, Deutsche Akademie, Eugen Fischer, Frankfort Conference, Hans Frank, Third Reich, Nuremberg Laws, Foreign Ministry, Carl Schmitt, Peter-Heinz Seraphim, Walter Gross, Eastern Jewry, Middle Ages, Gerhard Kittel, Governor General, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt New!
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- Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler on page 35, and page 40
- The Myth of the Twentieth Century by Alfred Rosenberg on page 20
- The Myth of the Twentieth Century (German Edition) by Alfrzo Rosenberg on page 20
- The Jews and Modern Capitalism (Classics in Social Science Series) by Werner Sombart on page 204
- Ancient History by National Learning Corporation on page 102
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- Science and Ideology: A Comparative History (Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine) by Mark Walker on page 7, page 15, and page 32
- Science and Ideology: A Comparative History (Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine) by Mark Walker on page 7, page 15, and page 32
- German National Socialism and the Quest for Nuclear Power, 1939-49 by Mark Walker in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt on page 34, and Back Matter
- "Life Unworthy of Life": Racial Phobia and Mass Murder in Hitler's Germany by James Glass in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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