Hitler's Professors : The Part of Scholarship in Germany's Crimes Against the Jewish People

by Max Weinreich; With a new Foreword by Martin Gilbert

• ISBN13: 9780300053876
• ISBN10: 0300053878
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1999-05-11
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

PLANNING AND PREPARATION
The Problem Stated	5	(5)
German Scholarship, 1918-1933. The Early Years of the Hitler Regime	10	(7)
How the Scholars Came into the Nazi Camp	17	(5)
Alfred Rosenberg, the Apostle of Racialism	22	(5)
Racial Science: Eugen Fischer, Ernst Rudin, and Others	27	(9)
Legal and Political Science: Hans Frank, Carl Schmitt, and Others	36	(4)
The Beginning of the New Anti-Jewish Science: Gerhard Kittel	40	(5)
Walter Frank. The Reichsinstitut fur Geschichte des neuen Deutschlands (Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany)	45	(5)
The Reichsinstitut fur Geschichte des neuen Deutschlands, 1935-1938. Wilhelm Grau	50	(4)
The Reichsinstitut fur Geschichte des neuen Deutschlands, 1938-1941. Hess, Streicher, Keitel as Patrons	54	(4)
Goebbels' Institut zum Studium der Judenfrage (Institute for the Study of the Jewish Question). Wilhelm Ziegler	58	(4)
Walter Grundmann. The Institut zur Erforschung des judischen Einflusses auf das deutsche kirchliche Leben (Institute for the Study of Jewish Influence on German Church Life)	62	(5)
Preparing for War: the Concepts of Folk and Space	67	(8)
On the Eve of War: Jewry = Bolshevism. Peter-Heinz Seraphim	75	(4)
Walter Gross. The Stage Set for Conquest. Hitler's Prophecy	79	(5)
LARGE-SCALE EXPERIMENTING
Polish Jewry in German Hands. Jewry = Plutocracy	84	(5)
The Ghetto in Scholarly Theory and in Practice	89	(6)
Hans Frank's Institut fur deutsche Ostarbeit (Institute for German Work in the East)	95	(2)
The Inauguration of Rosenberg's Institut zur Erforschung der Judenfrage (Institute for Research into the Jewish Question) in Frankfort on-the-Main	97	(4)
The Staff, the Library, and the Organ of the Frankfort Institute	101	(5)
The Frankfort Conference of March, 1941. Scholarly Backing for the ``Universal European Solution of the Jewish Question''	106	(7)
Secrets of the Anti-Jewish Propaganda. The Representatives of the Conquered and Satellite Countries at the Frankfort Conference	113	(6)
Between the Fall of France and the Attack on the Soviet Union. The Concept of Greater Space	119	(7)
Scholarly Backing for the Assault on the Eastern Space	126	(5)
Preparing for the Extinction of the Jews	131	(3)
Anti-Jewish Research Institutions on German Models in Italy, France, Lithuania, Croatia, Hungary, and Denmark	134	(6)
The Extinction of the Jews in the Eastern Territories Begins. Scholarly Theories Reappearing in Wehrmacht Orders	140	(5)
The Extinction Procedure until the End of 1941. The Clash between Economic Interest and Political Goals	145	(13)
New Tasks for German Scholarship after Pearl Harbor: Jewry the Link between Plutocracy and Bolshevism	158	(5)
EXECUTION OF THE PROGRAM
Jewry---the Only Front on Which Victory Could be Won. Extinction of the Jews in the Government General	163	(7)
New Developments in Racial Science: Refolking vs. Purity of Blood	170	(7)
Refolking the Letts and the Poles	177	(2)
Splitting Up the Poles: Refolking, Enslavement, Extinction	179	(5)
Continuing Extinction of the Jews: Revision in Theory, Consistency in Practice	184	(11)
The Scientific Aspects of the Death Factories	195	(7)
The Jew as a Demon. Belief in Demons and Plain Deceit. Ritual Murder	202	(6)
The Indoctrination Literature of the Wehrmacht and of the Foreign Ministry	208	(6)
Anti-Jewish Research Literature in the Twilight-of-the-Gods Period	214	(5)
An International Anti-Jewish Congress in 1944	219	(16)
Anti-Semitism an Avowed ``Secret Weapon''	235	(4)
Summary and Conclusions	239	(4)
Facsimiles of Excerpts	243	(18)
Index of Persons and Institutions	261	(27)
Index of Periodicals, Serials, and Publishing Houses	288