Nazi Germany And The Humanities

Author : Anson Rabinbach,Wolfgang Bialas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780746166

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Nazi Germany and The Humanities by Anson Rabinbach,Wolfgang Bialas Pdf

MERGEFIELD AI_Copy In 1933, Jews and, to a lesser extent, political opponents of the Nazis, suffered an unprecedented loss of positions and livelihood at Germany’s universities. With few exceptions, the academic elite welcomed and justified the acts of the Nazi regime, uttered no word of protest when their Jewish and liberal colleagues were dismissed, and did not stir when Jewish students were barred admission. The subject of how German scholars responded to the Nazi regime continues to be a fascinating area of scholarship. In this collection, Rabinbach and Bialas bring some of the best scholarly contributions together in one cohesive volume, to deliver a shocking conclusion: whatever diverse motives German intellectuals may have had in 1933, the image of Nazism as an alien power imposed on German universities from without was a convenient fiction.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 6000015410

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Nazi Germany and the Humanities by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anson Rabinbach,Wolfgang Bialas
Publisher : Oneworld Publications
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 178074434X

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Nazi Germany and The Humanities by Anson Rabinbach,Wolfgang Bialas Pdf

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Author : Bernard M. Levinson,Robert P. Ericksen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253060815

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The Betrayal of the Humanities by Bernard M. Levinson,Robert P. Ericksen Pdf

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.

Author : Ottomar Rudolf
Publisher : First Books
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781592997350

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I Remember by Ottomar Rudolf Pdf

Born in 1929 in Germany, Ottomar Rudolf lived during World War II in Ulm on the Danube. Towards the end of the war he was inducted into the Wehrmacht. He served in the Panzer Corps in 1945 and was sent to the eastern front. He returned to Ulm after being wounded. When the war ended Ulm was in the American sector of occupation. Relatives sponsored him to come to the United States. Arriving in New York in 1948, he attended Manhattan College in New York City and received a BA in Philosophy. His first teaching position was at St. Joseph's College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During the Korean War he was drafted into the Signal Corps. While serving, he became an American citizen. After Korea he was sent to Heidelberg, Germany, to finish his tour of duty. At the University of Heidelberg he studied Philosophy and German Literature and upon his return to the United States he continued those studies at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He subsequently received appointments as assistant professor of German at Bryn Mawr and Haverford colleges in Pennsylvania. In 1959 he earned his PhD in Germanic Languages and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1963 he moved to Portland, Oregon to take the position of Assistant Professor of German and Humanities at Reed College, where he taught until his retirement in 1998 as Professor Emeritus. Professor Rudolf was also Visiting Professor at the universities of Freiburg and Munich. A published scholar and frequent lecturer on German culture and history, Professor Rudolf was awarded the Verdienstkreuz Erster Klasse, Officer's Cross, by the President of Germany in 1989. He lives in Portland with his wife Catherine.

Author : Harald Kleinschmidt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351915557

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Nazi Germany by Harald Kleinschmidt Pdf

The volume reproduces a set of recently-published articles demonstrating the embeddedness of Nazi genocide and other crimes against humanity in a German society that was haunted by practices of denunciation. Far from being an inexplicable invasion of evil into otherwise sound German society, the genocide and other crimes against humanity were committed not merely by members of SS organizations but by common people, civilians and military men alike, within Germany as well as in occupied territories, during the late 1930s and World War II. Although analyzing the past, the book also seeks contribute to current debates on the causes of genocide and other crimes against humanity.

Author : Stig Ekman,Klas Åmark,John Toler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015058107304

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Sweden's Relations with Nazism, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust by Stig Ekman,Klas Åmark,John Toler Pdf

"The Committee for Humanities and the Social Sciences at the Research Council has been commissioned by the government to carry out a program of research into Sweden's relations with Nazism, Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. A part of this commission was to produce a survey of the research field. This survey was organized around the three key concepts of the title of the research program, with chapters on Sweden and the Holocaust. A special chapter on Sweden's economic relations to Nazi Germany was added, as well as a bibliography. The survey gives both a picture of a broad research in the field, with ongoing debates in a number of areas, but also of significant gaps, where research still is lacking. The survey presents an internationally unique presentation of the state of research in a much debated and controversial field."

Author : Walter J. Rinderle,Bernard Norling
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0813191033

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The Nazi Impact on a German Village by Walter J. Rinderle,Bernard Norling Pdf

Many scholars have tried to assess Adolf Hitler's influence on the German people, usually focusing on university towns and industrial communities, most of them predominately Protestant or religiously mixed. This work by Walter Rinderle and Bernard Norling, however, deals with the impact of the Nazis on Oberschopfheim, a small, rural, overwhelmingly Catholic village in Baden-Wuerttemberg in southwestern Germany. This incisively written book raises fundamental questions about the nature of the Third Reich. The authors portray the Nazi regime as considerably less "totalitarian" than is commonly assumed, hardly an exemplar of the efficiency for which Germany is known, and neither revered nor condemned by most of its inhabitants. The authors suggest that Oberschopfheim merely accepted Nazi rule with the same resignation with which so many ordinary people have regarded their governments throughout history. Based on village and county records and on the direct testimony of Oberschopfheimers, this book will interest anyone concerned with contemporary Germany as a growing economic power and will appeal to the descendants of German immigrants to the United States because of its depiction of several generations of life in a German village.

Author : Julia Timpe,Frederike Buda
Publisher : de Gruyter
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 3111355918

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Writing the Digital History of Nazi Germany by Julia Timpe,Frederike Buda Pdf

How do scholarship and practices of remembrance regarding Nazi Germany benefit from digital tools and approaches? What challenges arise from "doing history digitally" in this field - and how should they best be dealt with? The eight chapters of this book explore these and related questions. They discuss the digital initiatives of various archives and source databases, highlight findings of research undertaken with digital tools, and examine how such tools can be used to present history in education, exhibitions and memorials. All contributions focus on recent or, in some cases, ongoing digital projects related to the history of National Socialism, World War II, and the Holocaust.

Author : Anson Rabinbach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000077513

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Staging the Third Reich by Anson Rabinbach Pdf

A widely celebrated intellectual historian of twentieth-century Europe, Anson Rabinbach is one of the most important scholars of National Socialism working over the last forty years. This volume collects, for the first time, his pathbreaking work on Nazi culture, antifascism, and the after-effects of Nazism on postwar German and European culture. Historically detailed and theoretically sophisticated, his essays span the aesthetics of production, messianic and popular claims, the ethos that Nazism demanded of its adherents, the brilliant and sometimes successful efforts of antifascist intellectuals to counter Hitler’s rise, the most significant concepts to emerge out of the 1930s and 1940s for understanding European authoritarianism, the major controversies around Nazism that took place after the regime’s demise, the philosophical claims of postwar philosophers, sociologists and psychoanalysts—from Theodor Adorno to Hannah Arendt and from Alexander Kluge to Klaus Theweleit—and the role of Auschwitz in European history.

Author : Frank Trommler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art and state
ISBN : 0941441431

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The Cultural Legitimacy of the Federal Republic by Frank Trommler Pdf

Author : Roderick Stackelberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 041537331X

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Hitler's Germany by Roderick Stackelberg Pdf

Praise for the first edition: 'This is an important new textbook on the Nazi period which is geared to intermediate and advanced undergraduates and will also interest general audiences ... this book is a real winner and deserves wide use.' - Bruce Campbell, German Studies Review 'An excellent job... provides a comprehensive and sophisticated analysis of the origins of National Socialism in Germany, Hitler's rise to power, and the nature of the Nazi regime after 1933... no small achievement.' - David Crew, University of Texas, Austin Hitler's Germany provides a comprehensive narrative history of Nazi Germany and sets it in the wider context of nineteenth- and twentieth-century German history. Roderick Stackelberg analyzes how it was possible that a national culture of such creativity and achievement could generate such barbarism and destructiveness. This second edition has been updated throughout to incorporate recent historical research and engage with current debates in the field. It includes an expanded introduction focusing on the hazards of writing about Nazi Germany an extended analysis of fascism, totalitarianism, imperialism, and ideology a broadened contextualisation of antisemitism discussion of the Holocaust including the euthanasia program and the role of eugenics new chapters on Nazi social and economic policies and the structure of government as well as on the role of culture, the arts, education and religion additional maps, tables, and a chronology a fully updated bibliography. Exploring the controversies surrounding Nazism and its afterlife in historiography and historical memory, Hitler's Germany provides students with an interpretive framework for understanding this extraordinary episode in German and European history.

Author : Bruce W. Longenecker
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781630875213

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Hitler, Jesus, and Our Common Humanity by Bruce W. Longenecker Pdf

This book follows the journey of a Jew who fled Nazi Germany but could not exorcise its evils from his theological and literary imagination. Having spent his early years trying to escape from his encounters with Nazism, Rolf Gompertz spent his later years trying to interpret the contours of evil that he had experienced in Hitler's Germany. The spiritual journey of Rolf Gompertz offers intrigue, instruction, and challenge. It is the story of how a small Jewish boy, cowering under the talons of prejudice and protected only by the love of his parents, emerged to craft a life that directly refuted the ideology that propped up the power structures of Nazi Germany. Along the way, Gompertz came to recognize in the folds of the Christian Gospels the story of another Jew who had stood in opposition to a similar configuration of ideology and power. In retelling that story as a committed Jew, Gompertz offered a robust "response to Hitler"--a refutation of the malevolent forces that seek to dismantle "our common humanity."

Author : Stephanie Bird,Mary Fulbrook,Julia Wagner,Christiane Wienand
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474241861

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Reverberations of Nazi Violence in Germany and Beyond by Stephanie Bird,Mary Fulbrook,Julia Wagner,Christiane Wienand Pdf

Reverberations of Nazi Violence in Germany and Beyond explores the complex and diverse reverberations of the Second World War after 1945. It focuses on the legacies that National Socialist violence and genocide perpetrated in Europe continue to have in German-speaking countries and communities, as well as among those directly affected by occupation, terror and mass murder. Furthermore it explores how those legacies are in turn shaped by the present. The volume also considers conflicting, unexpected and often dissonant interpretations and representations of these events, made by those who were the witnesses, victims and perpetrators at the time and also by different communities in the generations that followed. The contributions, from a range of disciplinary perspectives, enrich our understanding of the complexity of the ways in which a disturbing past continues to disrupt the present and how the past is in turn disturbed and instrumentalized by a later present.

Author : Berel Lang
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501727559

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The Future of the Holocaust by Berel Lang Pdf

In The Future of the Holocaust, Berel Lang continues his inquiry into the causal mechanisms of decision-making and conduct in Nazi Germany and into responses to the genocide by individuals and nations—an inquiry that he began in Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide and pursued in Heidegger's Silence. Raising the question now of what the future of the Holocaust is, he addresses among other topics how history and memory together shape views of the Holocaust; how the concept of "intention"—which played a crucial part in the events of half a century ago—shapes history and memory themselves; and how future views of this genocide may alter those of today.In addition, Lang explores cultural representations of the "Final Solution"—from monuments to public school curricula—within the Jewish and German communities. He analyzes ethical issues concerning such concepts as intention, responsibility, forgiveness, and revenge, and puts forward a theory of the history of evil which provides a context for the Holocaust both historically and morally. Addressing the claims that the Nazi genocide was unique, Lang argues that the Holocaust is at once an actual series of events and a still future possibility. If the Holocaust occurred once, he argues, it can occur twice—and this view of the future remains an unavoidable premise for anyone now writing or thinking about that event in the past.