Klaus E. Meyer

Conflict Escalation as a Strategy: National Socialists, “Professor Hitler,” and the Technical University of Brunswick, 1930-1933

In the late 1920s and early 1930s, German universities faced the rise of National Socialism among students and external stakeholders. University leaders were typically embedded in a traditional bourgeois milieu and ardent defenders of academic freedom, which led to aggressive confrontations with groups advocating the...