Complicity in the Holocaust - Churches and Universities in Nazi Germany

Informationen zum Autor Robert P. Ericksen is Kurt Mayer Chair in Holocaust Studies and Professor of History at Pacific Lutheran University. Ericksen is also a Fellow of the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation. He is on the editorial boards of the journals Kirchliche Zeitgeschicte (Contemporary Church History) and Association of Contemporary Church Historians. Ericksen is the author of Theologians under Hitler: Gerhard Kittel, Paul Althaus and Emanuel Hirsch (1985) and co-editor of Betrayal: German Churches and the Holocaust (1999). Klappentext This book argues that enthusiasm for Hitler within churches and universities effectively gave Germans permission to participate in the Nazi regime. Zusammenfassung In one of the darker aspects of Nazi Germany! churches and universities grew to accept and support Nazi ideology. Complicity in the Holocaust describes how the state's intellectual and spiritual leaders enthusiastically partnered with Hitler's regime. Ericksen also examines Germany's flawed yet successful postwar policy of denazification in these institutions. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Why the Holocaust matters in a century of death; 2. Churches and the rise of Hitler; 3. Universities and the rise of Hitler; 4. Consent and collaboration: the churches through 1945; 5. The intellectual arm: universities through 1945; 6. Repressing and reprocessing the past: denazification and its legacy of dissimulation; 7. A closer look: denazification at Göttingen University; 8. Implications.

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• Authors: Robert P Ericksen, Robert P. Ericksen, Robert P. (Pacific Lutheran University Ericksen, Ericksen Robert P.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.02.2012
• EAN: 9781107015913
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01591-3
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Europe, European History, Germany, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Far-right political ideologies and movements, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)