Preface Introduction: The Swastika in the Ivory Tower 1. Embracing National Socialism 2. The "German Spirit" in Scholarship 3. The National Socialist University at War 4. Constructing the Myth 5. The Limits of Denazification 6. Whitewashing the Ivory Tower 7. A Culture of Forgetting Conclusion: Complicities and Silences Appendix A. The Structure of the German University Appendix B. Dissertations Supervised by Paul Schmitthenner, 1932-1941 Archival Sources Notes Index
The Heidelberg Myth is lucid, passionate, and scholarly beyond reproach. It should be read by anyone interested in the debates currently circulating about intellectuals and academic culture in the Third Reich. -- Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University
Steven P. Remy is Associate Professor of History at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
The Heidelberg Myth is lucid, passionate, and scholarly beyond
reproach. It should be read by anyone interested in the debates
currently circulating about intellectuals and academic culture in
the Third Reich.
*Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University*
In his fascinating book...Steven Remy deals with two purges--the
one in 1933 when Hitler came to power and many of those in line
with the "new spirit" were removed, and the second 1945-48 when the
American authorities (Heidelberg being located in the U.S. zone of
occupation) tried to undo the damage. It is microhistory, dealing
with a relatively small group of people, but the group was
important and the story is of much wider significance. For what
took place in Heidelberg happened one way or another in all German
universities--and many other institutions as well.
*Washington Times*
Will interest not only historians, but anyone interested in 20th
century German intellectual history.
*Times Higher Education Supplement*
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