A Legal Odyssey: Denazification Law, Nazi Elite Schools, and the Construction of Postwar Memory

Autor/in	Mueller, Tim
Titel	A Legal Odyssey: Denazification Law, Nazi Elite Schools, and the Construction of Postwar Memory
Quelle	In: History of Education, 46 (2017) 4, S.498-513 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0046-760X
DOI	10.1080/0046760X.2017.1318307
Schlagwörter	Selective Admission; Political Science; Authoritarianism; Political Attitudes; Boarding Schools; Advantaged; Military Personnel; Alumni; Foreign Countries; Laws; War; European History; Social Systems; Nationalism; Court Litigation; Educational History; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsselektion; Staatslehre; Politikwissenschaft; Politische Wissenschaft; Autoritarismus; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Boarding school; Internat; Ausland; Law; Recht; Krieg; Social system; Soziales System; Nationalismus; Rechtsstreit; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Deutschland
Abstract	This article examines the responses of former Nazi elite school staff to the pressures of denazification. Teachers of the National Political Education Institutes, known as Napolas for short--boarding schools for the Third Reich's racial elite--were especially affected by the purge of National Socialist supporters from positions of influence, due to the schools' intimate relationship to Heinrich Himmler's SS. The introduction of the Law for Liberation from National Socialism and Militarism in the US occupation zone in 1946, however, allowed Napola apologists to construct a selective interpretation of the past, which rehabilitated the Napolas' postwar image and successfully reintegrated alumni into West German society, in many cases long before the Adenauer government issued a series of amnesty laws. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01