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...

Description complète

Enregistré dans:  
Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Dollinger, Marc (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Critique
Langue:Anglais
Vérifier la disponibilité: HBZ Gateway
Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Publié: 2011
Dans: Holocaust and genocide studies
Année: 2011, Volume: 25, Numéro: 2, Pages: 327-329
Compte rendu de:The Third Reich in the ivory tower (Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009) (Dollinger, Marc)
Sujets non-standardisés:B Compte-rendu de lecture
Accès en ligne: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Description
Résumé: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.
ISSN:1476-7937
Contient:Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcr026