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		achenet on May 13, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 23% of bachelor's degrees and 43% of master's degr... did not know that German university students were at the forefront of the Nazi takeover, would you have any good sources on this to recommend?

TMWNN on May 14, 2024 [–]

I first learned about this as a teenager, from Shirer's classic The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. There was very, very little hesitation on or resistance to among German universities regarding Nazi actions like the mass burnings of "degenerate" books.

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