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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Steven P. Remy. The Heidelberg Myth: The Nazification and Denazification of a German University. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2002. Pp. xi, 329. $39.95.

This book by Steven P. Remy reflects a continuing interest in investigating the pervasiveness of National Socialist ideology in German society. Major works on the ideological umbrella organizations, like the SS Ahnenerbe (SS Ancestral Inheritance) and the Rosenberg Amt (Bureau), as well as substantive studies of particular academic disciplines, have helped lay the groundwork for this study of one academic institution. Remy focuses his attention exclusively on the University of Heidelberg, long considered one of the traditionally liberal universities of Germany. The book's seven chapters read like a drama, with a prologue, "Embracing National Socialism," followed by buildup chapters on the "'German Spirit' in Scholarship" and the "National Socialist University at War." Chapter four, "Constructing the Myth," the dramatic highpoint, proves to be the core of his book. The last chapters present the resolution by elaborating on "Whitewashing the Ivory Tower" and "A Culture of Forgetting."

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