The Heidelberg Myth

The Nazification and Denazification of a German University

Steven P. Remy

    Preface

    Introduction: The Swastika in the Ivory Tower

    1. Embracing National Socialism

    2. The "German Spirit" in Scholarship

    3. The National Socialist University at War

    4. Constructing the Myth

    5. The Limits of Denazification

    6. Whitewashing the Ivory Tower

    7. A Culture of Forgetting

    Conclusion: Complicities and Silences

    Appendix A. The Structure of the German University

    Appendix B. Dissertations Supervised by Paul Schmitthenner, 1932-1941

    Archival Sources

    Notes

    Index

  • Cover: The Heidelberg Myth
  • A photo of the author

Steven P. Remy is Associate Professor of History, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.