Language:
German
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft
Angaben zur Quelle:
46,4 (1998) 305-319
Keywords:
Jellinek, Walter,
;
Jews History 1933-1939
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews Legal status, laws, etc.
Abstract:
Relates the story of Jellinek (1885-1955), a professor at the University of Heidelberg, a second-generation Protestant with three presumably Jewish grandparents. In 1935 he was dismissed from the university under the Nuremberg Laws. Jellinek invested considerable time and energy in genealogical research to prove that his grandparents (among them the famous rabbi Adolf Jellinek of Vienna) were descended from Christians who converted to Judaism. The bureaucratic investigation of his case dragged on for several years and in the meantime gave him a certain immunity from antisemitic measures, as did his marriage to an Aryan and also, apparently, the protection of a former student: Hans Frank. His brother died as a result of imprisonment and his sister was deported to Theresienstadt (but survived); he himself was made to do forced labor but survived the Nazi period unscathed, and unshaken in his identity as a German.
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