Vertreibung, Rückkehr, Wiedergutmachung: Göttinger Hochschullehrer im Schatten des Nationalsozialismus : mit einer biographischen Dokumentation der entlassenen und verfolgten Hochschullehrer, Universität Göttingen ... [et al.]

Discusses the persection of Jewish professors in the Göttingen region and their dismissal in 1933 from academic positons, including 25 at the Technische Hochschule Braunschweig, 5 at the Technische Hochschule Hannover, and 53 at Universität Göttingen. Pp. 53-83 provide bits of information on the fate of some of them during the Holocaust. Pp. 85-496 discuss rehabilitation. States that after the war universities had to be newly constituted, materially and ideologically. The plan of the British military government to offer persecuted and exiled professors positions was mainly disapproved by leading professors. Denazification attempts led to ineffectual and brief personnel changes at the universities. Besides those burdened with the Nazi past, a significant number of professors from former Nazi-occupied territories were looking for employment, and universities preferred the best qualified and were not interested in recalling exiled Jewish professors who had not done research during the Holocaust period. Thus, the rehabiltion of Jewish professors was very limited. The attitude of returned Jewish professors was also ambivalent. While the new employment solved a financial problem, it was difficult to forget that colleagues had approved and maybe even encouraged their persecution. The appendix (pp. 523-688) includes biographical data on dismissed Jewish professors and an overview on dismissal, emigration, and return to German universities.