{"id":6660,"date":"2009-06-19T11:07:58","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T19:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/06\/6660\/"},"modified":"2009-06-19T11:14:49","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T19:14:49","slug":"6660","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/06\/6660\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher Ed and the Third Reich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2009\/06\/17\/nazism\">Higher Ed and the Third Reich<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new book examines American colleges\u2019 ties to Nazi Germany in the 1930s &#8212; and chronicles a record characterized by indifference, complicity and collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn order to understand the whole course of development that leads us to the Holocaust, I think it\u2019s very important to see what influential sectors in the United States were doing. And in the case of higher education, it\u2019s a very shameful record of complicity and indifference to atrocities committed against the Jews from 1933 onward &#8212; and actually a lot of collaboration, in terms of participating in well-organized student exchange programs, participating in well-orchestrated Nazi festivals in Germany, sending delegates to those and ignoring protests,\u201d says Stephen H. Norwood, a professor of history at the University of Oklahoma and author of The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses, new from Cambridge University Press. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: Higher Ed and the Third Reich A new book examines American colleges\u2019 ties to Nazi Germany in the 1930s &#8212; and chronicles a record characterized by indifference, complicity and collaboration. \u201cIn order to understand the whole course &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/06\/6660\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[852,4225,4226,4220],"class_list":["post-6660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fascism","tag-germany","tag-third-reich","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6662,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660\/revisions\/6662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}