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Hitler's Professors
This classic book examines the role of leading scholars, philosophers, historians, and scientists―in Hitler’s rise to power and eventual war of extermination against the Jews. Written in 1946 by one of the greatest scholars of European Jewish history and culture, it is now reissued with a new introduction by the prominent historian Martin Gilbert.
"Dr. Weinreich's main thesis is that ‘German scholarship provided the ideas and techniques that led to and justified unparalleled slaughter.’. . . In its implications and honest presentation of the facts [this book] constitutes the best guide to the nature of Nazi terror that I have read so far."―Hannah Arendt, Commentary
"Mr. Weinreich's book, by the wealth of its material and by its intelligent approach, offers the reader―in addition to a thorough treatment of the Jewish aspect―many opportunities to think about the role of scholarship in a totalitarian society."―Hans Kohn, New York Times Book Review
"Building, in the immediate aftermath of the war, on a formidable bibliography of books, pamphlets, and articles, Weinreich provides erudite evidence of the scale and ramifications of Nazi support in German intellectual life."―Martin Gilbert, from the introduction
Published in association with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
"Dr. Weinreich's main thesis is that ‘German scholarship provided the ideas and techniques that led to and justified unparalleled slaughter.’. . . In its implications and honest presentation of the facts [this book] constitutes the best guide to the nature of Nazi terror that I have read so far."―Hannah Arendt, Commentary
"Mr. Weinreich's book, by the wealth of its material and by its intelligent approach, offers the reader―in addition to a thorough treatment of the Jewish aspect―many opportunities to think about the role of scholarship in a totalitarian society."―Hans Kohn, New York Times Book Review
"Building, in the immediate aftermath of the war, on a formidable bibliography of books, pamphlets, and articles, Weinreich provides erudite evidence of the scale and ramifications of Nazi support in German intellectual life."―Martin Gilbert, from the introduction
Published in association with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
304 pages, Paperback
First published May 11, 1999
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June 9, 2021
"Hitler's Professors" by Max Weinreich is a overview of German "scholarship" under the Nazi regime. The academic and university professors and scholars actively supported Adolf Hitler, including the Final Solution. There was support from all branches of the academic world from historians, social scientists, jurists, to philosophers. The Nazi's actively supported the academics as well as created new institutions to support their anti-Jewish push to purge all Jews from the Greater German state and the eastern lands. They actively recruited academics from other nations whenever they had conferences on the "Jewish question" both before and during WW2. The use of academics research and scholarly papers were used to buttress the steps of the Nazi government's march to genocide.
There are chapters on the extensive use of anti-Semitic literature by the Wehrmacht. The use of this propaganda was an integral part of educating the troops on the purpose of the war effort which was signed off by Field Marshals and Generals of the Wehrmacht, including Keitel, Model and many others.
This book is a must read in the study of how Adolf Hitler and the Nazi government harnessed the cultural undercurrent of anti-Semitic history and attitudes of the German people.
There are chapters on the extensive use of anti-Semitic literature by the Wehrmacht. The use of this propaganda was an integral part of educating the troops on the purpose of the war effort which was signed off by Field Marshals and Generals of the Wehrmacht, including Keitel, Model and many others.
This book is a must read in the study of how Adolf Hitler and the Nazi government harnessed the cultural undercurrent of anti-Semitic history and attitudes of the German people.
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