Language:
German
Year of publication:
1993
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
2 (1993) 200-229
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Antisemitism History 1933-1945
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Historians History 20th century
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History Study and teaching 1933-1945
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Universities and colleges Faculty 20th century
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Attitudes
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History
Abstract:
Examines to what degree historians in Nazi Germany adopted Nazi racist and antisemitic ideology. States that most of the established professors at universities, although nationalistic and welcoming the new regime, did not view race as the basic determinant of history. Such a view, including support for Nazi purification of the race from Jewish elements, was promoted by institutes outside the universities and manned mainly by younger and less prominent historians: the Forschungsabteilung "Judenfrage" of the Reichsinstitut für Geschichte des Neuen Deutschlands, founded in 1936; and the Institut für Deutsche Ostarbeit, set up in 1940 to advise the Nazi regime in occupied Poland. Prominent university historians lent the prestige of their names to these institutes as board members, and supported Nazi racial policy at least passively; and some, such as Erich Keyser, professor at the Danzig Technische Hochshule, wrote racist and antisemitic works in express support of that policy. also lists historians forced to emigrate for racial or political reasons.
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