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Direct linkThiel, Jens – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2004
Paul Abraham, one of the Berlin Academy's most experienced researchers, was deported to Auschwitz in 1943. The fate of this Jewish scholar reveals much about the inner life of the Academy, and its treatment of Jewish staff, during the World War II. This paper describes his life, against a backdrop of war, revolution, and dictatorship, and in the…
Descriptors: Jews, War, Humanities, World History
Notzoldt, Peter; Walther, Peter Th. – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2004
In 1933, the Prussian Academy of Sciences and Humanities was an exclusive learned society, out of touch with modern methods and funding, which had also failed to re-establish itself as a "centre of research". During the Nazi regime, it was at best peripherally involved in the restructuring of German academia. While some of its members…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Sciences, Humanities
Hardtwig, Wolfgang – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2004
The German Revolution of November 1918 dramatically altered the Academy's view of its relationship with government. In particular, the Academy's Prussian tradition had to be rethought. From initial wariness to grudging acceptance, the Academy came to accept the Weimar regime. This paper studies the politics of the Academy, uncovers factions and…
Descriptors: Humanities, Sciences, Foreign Countries, Political Attitudes
