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The Moratorium of the Mandarins and the Self-Denazification of German Academe: a View from Göttingen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2003

BERND WEISBROD
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Abstract

The institutional and intellectual transition of German academe from the Third Reich to the Federal Republic required a measure of self-denazification and intellectual realignment which combined a deliberate ‘politics of the past’ with the safeguards of professorial status. Against the background of the re-established civil service culture in postwar Germany this ‘moratorium of the mandarins’ can be seen as a social and intellectual process which required a re-evaluation of academic style and substance within the bounds of professorial collegiality. This process was exemplified in cases from history, theology and physics at the University of Göttingen.

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Research Article
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Contemporary European History , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , February 2003 , pp. 47 - 69
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© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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