| Description |
1 online resource (282 pages) |
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Cover; Complicity in the Holocaust; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1: Why the Holocaust Matters in a Century of Death; The Century of Death; The German Holocaust and Western Culture; How Could It Happen?; Nazis, Germans, "Good Germans," and Decent Human Beings; What Constitutes Complicity?; 2: Churches and the Rise of Hitler; The Protestant "Kirchenkampf" and the "Jewish Question"; The Protestant Kirchenkampf and the Rise of Hitler; The Roman Catholic Church in 1933; 3: Universities and the Rise of Hitler |
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Background to 1933: German Nationalism in the AcademyBackground to 1933: Student Activism; The Impact of 1933 on Jews, Books, and Academic Values; 4: Consent and Collaboration: The Churches Through 1945; Small Victories; The Barmen Declaration; Marching in the Streets against Nazi Policies; Calling out Mr. Hitler; Pius XI and his "Burning Concern" in 1937; Marching in the Streets, Episode Two; Dietrich Bonhoeffer; Large Defeats; Responses to 1933; Protestants Meet with the Führer; Identifying "Non-Aryans"; The Fate of Non-Aryan Pastors; Dejudaization; The Question of War; Pius XII and Germany |
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Gerhard KittelPostscript: Requiem for Hitler; Christian Complicity?; 5: The Intellectual Arm: Universities Through 1945; A Contemporary American Observer; The Political University; Hiring Policies; Curriculum; Specific Contributions to the Killing; Resistance; 6: Repressing and Reprocessing the Past: Denazification and Its Legacy of Dissimulation; Falsifying the Past: The Story of Denazification; Falsifying the Past: Popular and Scholarly Postwar Responses; From Failed Denazification to Successful Democratization; 7: A Closer Look: Denazification at Göttingen University; 8: Implications |
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Our Moral Balancing ActBibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Argues that enthusiasm for Hitler within churches and universities effectively gave Germans permission to participate in the Nazi regime |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-251) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Freie Universität Berlin Allgemeiner Studentenausschuß Kulturreferat gnd |
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BMBF-Statusseminar gnd |
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Church and state -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945.
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National socialism and religion.
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Universities and colleges -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
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Higher education and state -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
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National socialism and education.
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Anti-Nazi movement -- Germany.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Germany
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Anti-Nazi movement
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Church and state
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Higher education and state
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National socialism and education
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National socialism and religion
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Universities and colleges
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Nationalsozialismus
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Kirche
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Hochschule
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Kollaboration
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Judenvernichtung
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Entnazifizierung
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Drittes Reich
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781139221351 |
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1139221353 |
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9781139059602 |
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1139059602 |
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9781107015913 |
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110701591X |
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9781107663336 |
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1107663334 |
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9781139218269 |
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1139218263 |
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