Hitler's professors : second edition / Max Weinreich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weinreich, Max, Author.

Standardized Title:

Hiṭlers profesorn. English

Language:

English

Yiddish

Subjects (All):

Antisemitism--Germany.

Antisemitism.

Learning and scholarship--Germany--History--20th century.

Learning and scholarship.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Causes.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Antisemitism--Germany--History--20th century.

Learning and scholarship--Causes--Germany.

Germany--History--20th century.

Germany.

Germany--Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 291 p. )

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2008]

Language Note:

English

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. "Dr. Weinreich's main thesis is that 'German scholarship provided the ideas and techniques that led to and justified unparalleled slaughter.'. . . In its implications and honest presentation of the facts [this book] constitutes the best guide to the nature of Nazi terror that I have read so far."-Hannah Arendt, Commentary "Mr. Weinreich's book, by the wealth of its material and by its intelligent approach, offers the reader-in addition to a thorough treatment of the Jewish aspect-many opportunities to think about the role of scholarship in a totalitarian society."-Hans Kohn, New York Times Book Review "Building, in the immediate aftermath of the war, on a formidable bibliography of books, pamphlets, and articles, Weinreich provides erudite evidence of the scale and ramifications of Nazi support in German intellectual life."-Martin Gilbert, from the introduction

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword to the Second Edition

CONTENTS

Planning and Preparation

Large-Scale Experimenting

Execution of the Program

FACSIMILES OF EXCERPTS

INDEX OF PERSONS AND INSTITUTIONS

INDEX OF PERIODICALS, SERIALS, AND PUBLISHING HOUSES

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Yiddish Scientific Institute--YIVO, 1946. With new introd.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300144093

0300144091

9780585386959

0585386951

OCLC:

1024033735