Midwives to Nazism: University Professors in Weimar Germany, 1925-1933Faculty members of the Universities of Bavaria and of Wuerttemburg failed to fight against the rise of Nazism during the Weimar period, even facilitating the Nazi seizure of power by refusing to accept political responsibility (adopting strongly German nationalist and often antisemitic ideas), promoting German virtues over democracy, and expressing elitist educational ideals. Mentions, also, antisemitism in the student organizations. Ch. 4 (pp. 67-86) discusses discrimination against scholars who were socialists and/or Jews. Ch. 5 (pp. 87-105) describes the imposition of ideological uniformity (Gleichschaltung) on the universities in 1933, including the dismissal of Jewish professors and the reactions of faculty members. |
