Complicity in the Holocaust : churches and universities in Nazi Germany /
Robert P. Ericksen.
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- xviii, 261 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-251) and index.
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 G�ottingen University -- Implications.
Robert Ericksen argues that enthusiasm for Hitler within churches and universities effectively gave Germans permission to participate in the Nazi regime.
Church and state--History--Germany--1933-1945. National socialism and religion. Universities and colleges--History--Germany--20th century. Higher education and state--History--Germany--20th century. National socialism and education. Anti-Nazi movement--Germany. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany. Anti-Nazi movement--Germany. Church and state--History--1933-1945.--Germany Higher education and state--History--Germany--20th century. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany. Universities and colleges--History--Germany--20th century. Anti-Nazi movement. Church and state. Higher education and state. National socialism and education. National socialism and religion. Universities and colleges.