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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790333103321

Autore

Ericksen Robert P.

Titolo

Complicity in the Holocaust : churches and universities in Nazi Germany / / Robert P. Ericksen [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012

ISBN

1-107-23031-4

1-139-21008-4

1-280-87907-6

1-139-22306-2

9786613720382

1-139-05960-2

1-139-21826-3

1-139-22478-6

1-139-21517-5

1-139-22135-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 261 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

940.53/18

Soggetti

Church and state - Germany - History - 1933-1945

National socialism and religion

Universities and colleges - Germany - History - 20th century

Higher education and state - Germany - History - 20th century

National socialism and education

Anti-Nazi movement - Germany

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Germany

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Why the Holocaust matters in a century of death -- Churches and the rise of Hitler -- Universities and the rise of Hitler -- Consent and collaboration: the churches through 1945 -- The intellectual arm: universities through 1945 -- Repressing and reprocessing the past: denazification and its legacy of dissimulation -- A closer look: denazification at Göttingen University -- Implications.



Sommario/riassunto

In one of the darker aspects of Nazi Germany, churches and universities - generally respected institutions - grew to accept and support Nazi ideology. Robert P. Ericksen explains how an advanced, highly educated, Christian nation could commit the crimes of the Holocaust. This book describes how Germany's intellectual and spiritual leaders enthusiastically partnered with Hitler's regime, thus becoming active participants in the persecution of Jews, and ultimately, in the Holocaust. Ericksen also examines Germany's deeply flawed yet successful postwar policy of denazification in these institutions. Complicity in the Holocaust argues that enthusiasm for Hitler within churches and universities effectively gave Germans permission to participate in the Nazi regime.