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11-550: The University of Strasbourg evacuated to Clermont-Ferrand in 1939, in advance of the Nazi invasion. The Reichsuniversität Straßburg was formally opened in the university's facilities on 23 November 1941, the last of three "Reich Universities" ; the other two were in occupied Poland . It was intended to advance and spread German learning as defined by the Nazis, and to eclipse the Sorbonne . Most of

22-726: A "Topographical Anatomy of the Human Species". Hans Sedlmayr, a declared National Socialist, led an art institute throughout the war. The first Reichsuniversität began operations in Prague on November 4, 1939. The University of Poznań was closed by the German Occupation in 1939, and reopened on April 27, 1941 as Reichsuniversität Posen, a Grenzlanduniversität aligned with Nazi ideology. Its faculty included historian Reinhard Wittram  [ de ] and anatomist Hermann Voss . The German university ceased operations in 1944, and

33-1155: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to Nazi Germany is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Reinhard Wittram Look for Reinhard Wittram on one of Misplaced Pages's sister projects : [REDACTED] Wiktionary (dictionary) [REDACTED] Wikibooks (textbooks) [REDACTED] Wikiquote (quotations) [REDACTED] Wikisource (library) [REDACTED] Wikiversity (learning resources) [REDACTED] Commons (media) [REDACTED] Wikivoyage (travel guide) [REDACTED] Wikinews (news source) [REDACTED] Wikidata (linked database) [REDACTED] Wikispecies (species directory) Misplaced Pages does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for Reinhard Wittram in Misplaced Pages to check for alternative titles or spellings. You need to log in or create an account and be autoconfirmed to create new articles. Alternatively, you can use

44-806: The Deutsche Studentenschaft (German Student Union) in town squares, e.g. in Berlin , and the curricula were subsequently modified. Martin Heidegger became the rector (and later head) of Freiburg University , where he delivered a number of National Socialist speeches and for example promulgated the Führerprinzip at the University on August 21, 1933. The University of Vienna participated in National Socialism. Eduard Pernkopf (rector 1943–1945) compiled

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66-604: The Ahnenerbe. In particular, the Faculty of Medicine was more involved in the war effort than at the other two Reich universities. August Hirt , subsequently convicted as a war criminal , headed the Institute of Anatomy, where he conducted "racial anatomy" experiments and murdered concentration camp inmates for the Ahnenerbe's Jewish skeleton collection and his own Jewish skull collection . Victims were selected at Auschwitz as well as at

77-598: The University of Poznań reopened in 1945. The University of Strasbourg was transferred to Clermont-Ferrand in 1939 and Reichsuniversität Straßburg existed from November 23, 1941 until the Allied recapture of the city in 1944. It was notably the site of medical experimentation on and murder of Jews and other concentration camp inmates led by the Dean of the Medical School, August Hirt . This intellectual history article

88-579: The University of Strasbourg commissioned an investigation of medical crimes committed at the Reichsuniversität, and the report was published in May 2022. Reichsuniversit%C3%A4t This article discusses universities in Nazi Germany . In May 1933 books from university libraries which were deemed culturally destructive, mainly due to anti-National Socialist or Jewish themes or authors, were burned by

99-569: The department of early history and antiquities was presided over by Otto Huth , head of the section on Indo-European religion within the Ahnenerbe , the academic and research division of the SS . The institute had as one of its purposes bolstering the case for Alsace belonging culturally to Germany. The Faculty of Natural Science at the Reichsuniversität Straßburg was particularly important to

110-804: The faculty and students fled when the Allies re-entered the city in November 1944. The initial organisation of the Reichsuniversität was overseen by Ernst Anrich , a historian who became Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy. An SS man, he sought to orient it closely with the Nazi Party, the SS, and the Ministry of Education. The university had four of the traditional faculties : Philosophy (i.e., Humanities), Law, Medicine and Science, but no division of Theology. An independent institute of religion ( Allgemeine Religionswissenschaft ) within

121-401: The nearby Natzweiler-Struthof camp, and put to death in the gas chambers at Struthof, which had originally been installed for chemical weapons experiments. Hirt also had corpses delivered to the institute from French hospitals, POW hospitals, and from executions of French civilians. In addition to chemical weapons, criminal research on typhus was also conducted at the university. In 2016

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