LEADER 03699cam a2200397Ia 4500001 81114 005 20240621173510.0 008 030312s2000 xx rb 000 0 eng d 035 (OCoLC)ocm52280964 035 81114 049 LHMA 040 LHM |beng |erda |cLHM 090 LF2812 |b.R46 2000 100 1 Remy, Steven P. 245 14 The Heidelberg myth : |bthe Nazification and denazification of a German university, 1933-1957 / |cSteven P. Remy. 264 1 [Place of publication not identified] : |b[publisher not identified], |c2000. 300 667 pages 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 502 Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio University, 2000. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 621-667). 520 This is a study of academic culture in Germany during and after National Socialism. It is a case study of Ruprecht Karls Universitaet Heidelberg ("Heidelberg University") and addresses the following questions: How did professors respond to National Socialism, and how did they recall it after 1945? In 1933, professors representing all faculties welcomed the Nazi regime enthusiastically and supported its policies in their publications and lectures. Resistance to the regime-organized or individual-by professors or students-was virtually non-existent. Further, the regime's efforts to promote "National Socialist scholarship" met with wide, if uneven, support. From an early point, therefore, Heidelberg's professors oriented their scholarship and teaching to the regime's goal of creating a racially pure Germany and to its planned war of territorial expansion. At the outset of the occupation in 1945, American officials encouraged the organization of a group of professors who would become the driving force in the university's reopening. This group sought to restore the university's pre-1933 traditions and was uninterested in institutional reform. Further, they and many of their colleagues resisted the American policy of "denazification." Their resistance was based on what would prove to be a durable myth regarding the university's experience under National Socialism. The myth presented the university as an unwilling victim of the Nazis. Most professors, in this view, opposed the regime and its attempts to create "National Socialist scholarship." In particular, the records of civilian "denazification" tribunals reveal that professors constructed elaborate narratives of defense and justification regarding their relationships to National Socialism. These narratives severed politics from scholarship and allowed compromised professors to present themselves as scholars who never deviated from the standards of "objective" Western science. The narratives provided an important element of the emerging culture of forgetting that marked the formative years of the Federal Republic. 530 Electronic version(s) |bavailable internally at USHMM. 533 Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI Dissertation Services, |d2002. |e22 cm. 590 Dissertations and Theses 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 610 20 Universität Heidelberg |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Higher education and state |zGermany |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 National socialism and education. 856 41 |uhttp://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=727779321&sid=8&Fmt=6&clientId=54617&RQT=309&VName=PQD |zElectronic version from ProQuest 956 41 |u http://dc.ushmm.org/library/bib81114/9989112.pdf |z Hosted by USHMM. 994 X0 |bLHM 852 0 |bstacks |hLF2812 |i.R46 2000 852 |bwww 852 |bebook