Title: The Third Reich in the ivory tower : complicity and conflict on American campuses /
Authors: Norwood, Stephen H. 1951-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Education, Higher United States History; National socialism and education United States History.
Abstract: Systematic exploration of the nature and extent of sympathy for Nazi Germany at American universities during the 1930s. --from publisher description
Contents: Germany reverts to the dark ages : Nazi clarity and grassroots American protest, 1933-1934 -- Legitimating Nazism : Harvard University and the Hitler regime, 1933-1937 -- Complicity and conflict : Columbia University's response to fascism, 1933-1937 -- The Seven Sisters Colleges and the Third Reich : promoting fellowship through student exchange -- A respectful hearing for Nazi Germany's apologists : the University of Virginia Institute of Public Affairs Roundtables, 1933-1941 -- Nazi nests : German departments in American universities, 1933-1941 -- American Catholic universities' flirtation with fascism -- 1938, Year of the Kristallnacht : the limits of campus protest.