Nazi purges targeted academia out of ideological hatred, not political necessity

Evidence

The fact that a particularly nationalistic and conservative institution like the German university system was subjected to such an extensive purge can only be explained in terms of the hatred of Hitler and the Nazis for everything intellectual, for every academic activity not directly in the service of Nazi ideology and strategy. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 522

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The 1933 Civil Service Law purged Jewish and leftist academics from German universities — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 520; Nazis purged over a third of Frankfurt university teachers, second only to Berlin — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 522; Modern scholarship downplays antisemitism’s unique ideological role in the Holocaust (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Modern scholarship downplays antisemitism’s unique ideological role in the Holocaust #corroborates (0.85)
• Sincere Nazi intellectuals were discarded by the regime #exemplifies (0.80)
• Jewish émigrés faced pressure not to testify against Nazi-era academics #corroborates (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1713