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Michael Grüttner, Sven Kinas

The Expulsion of Academics from German Universities, 1933–1945

Keywords: Universität im Dritten Reich, Vertreibung nach 1933, Entlassungspolitik

To some degree, all accounts of the National Socialist dictatorship describe the mass expulsions with which the National Socialists “cleansed” the German universities. Yet, there is still no clarity as to the exact extent of the factually incurred personnel losses at universities during the Nazi Era and what became of the expelled academics. The article provides dependable figures for two-thirds of all universities and can therefore deliver a preliminary overview of the losses by expulsion on this basis.
A detailed appendix provides exact data on the individual universities and short biographies of those professors who became victims of National Socialist extermination policies or committed suicide.

Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag

Print ISSN: 0042-5702
Volume: 55, 01/2007
Pages: 123 - 186

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