This is the first systematic exploration of the nature and
extent of sympathy for Nazi Germany at American universities during
the 1930s. Universities were highly influential in shaping public
opinion and many of the nation''s most prominent university
administrators refused to take a principled stand against the
Hitler regime. Universities welcomed Nazi officials to campus and
participated enthusiastically in student exchange programs with
Nazified universities in Germany. American educators helped Nazi
Germany improve its image in the West as it intensified its
persecution of the Jews and strengthened its armed forces. The
study contrasts the significant American grassroots protest against
Nazism that emerged as soon as Hitler assumed power with campus
quiescence and administrators'' frequently harsh treatment of those
students and professors who challenged their determination to
maintain friendly relations with Nazi Germany.
目錄:
1. Germany reverts to the Dark Ages: Nazi clarity and American
awareness, 1933–1934
2. Legitimating Nazism: Harvard University and the Hitler regime,
1933–1937
3. Complicity and conflict: Columbia University''s response to
Fascism, 1933–1937
4. The seven sisters colleges and the Third Reich: promoting
fellowship through student exchange
5. A respectful hearing for Nazi Germany''s apologists: the
University of Virginia Institute of Public Affairs round tables,
1933–1941
6. Nazi nests: German departments in American Universities,
1933–1941
7. American Catholic Universities'' flirtation with Fascism
8. 1938, year of the Kristallnacht: the limits of campus
protest
Epilogue
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