- 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


The Heidelberg Myth
The Nazification and Denazification of a German University
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Publication Date: 01/30/2003