The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses, Stephen Norwood (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), xi + 339 pp., hardcover 29.99, pbk. 21.99
Contributing to a large body of scholarship on the actions (or inactions) of American and American-Jewish organizations during the rise of Hitler and Nazism, Stephen H. Norwood focuses on the American university to explore the attitudes—often sympathetic—of administrators, faculty members, and stude...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2011
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2011, Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 327-329 |
| Review of: | The Third Reich in the ivory tower (Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009) (Dollinger, Marc)
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| Further subjects: | B
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| Summary: | Contributing to a large body of scholarship on the actions (or inactions) of American and American-Jewish organizations during the rise of Hitler and Nazism, Stephen H. Norwood focuses on the American university to explore the attitudes—often sympathetic—of administrators, faculty members, and students toward Germany and its Nazi regime. In the author's words, this is “the first systematic exploration” of the subject. Norwood reveals a paradoxical relationship between institutions meant to advance knowledge and (by extension) humanity, and the emerging Nazi ideologies that enjoyed considerable university acceptability even as they foreshadowed war and countered any conception of the university's mission of enlightenment. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcr026 |
