Julius Streicher, publisher of the virulently antisernitic newspaper Der Stfirmer, posed the following question in 1938 to audience in berlin university:
If one weighed the brains of all university professors on one side of a scale and the brains of the Fuhrer on the other, which side, do you believe, would sink?
The statement itself, as well as the expectetion that audience would answer "Der Fuhrer," indicated that the traditional role of the German professor, and with it the prestige of the German universities, had altered under the pressures of National Socialist rule. In the words of later historians, the Nazis had succeeded in bringing about the "amputation" or "decapitation" of a once vital scholarly tradition.
so what nazi's did was to attempt to destroy scholarly tradition of germans to proppgate nazism
Nazi amputation of german academic tradition's
As we know, there is a widespread opinion in the West that Hitler was some sort of enemy for the German intellectual class. Which is (not entirely) untrue, because he had been supported by (some segments of) this social group. The opinion is based on his speeches which bashed the intellectual class. And the reason for these speeches is this:
http://thirdreichforum.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1497(scroll down to my message)
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Ovidius
http://thirdreichforum.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1497(scroll down to my message)
~Best regards,
Ovidius
rebuilding the academe?
So, learned friends, how did Germany (or whomever) go about rebuilding German's academia after the war? Was academia still politicized (like it ever isn't....)? Were any subjects barred?