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The article analyses the structural and biographical conditions for the Reich career of the Austrian medievalist Otto Brunner (1898-1982), which already became foreseeable during the 1930s and rapidly took up speed after the Anschluss of Austria in 1938. He proved to be a fervent adherent of the Nazi regime until the bitter end, which is especially revealed in his function as head of the Volksdeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaften [Ethnic German Research Councils] between 1940 and 1944 and in his connected relentless publishing and historical career, his reception of the reactivated Verdun Prize in 1943, his intensive attempts to gain Nazi Party membership (ultimately successful in 1943), his manuscript "Deutschlands Schicksalsweg" [Germany's Destiny] of 1944, which was long considered lost, but indeed survived, albeit only in the form of the proofs, and his close collaboration with Amt Rosenberg even in January 1945. When he succeeded to jump-start his professional career in the young Federal Republic again in the 1950s through the help of old fellow travellers, he was able to continue with the study of the most important topics which had kept him busy during the "Third Reich" with only minor modifications. This was supported by structural peculiarities of the academic discipline of history as well as wide-spread West German historical conservatism, which was connected with a strong desire for a fundamentally different interpretation of the Middle Ages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a report from a March 18-20, 2016 conference in Berlin, Germany on the study of national socialist history hosted by the Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing political science academy and the Institut für Zeitgeschichte München historical institute. Topics of presentations delivered include European regional differences in the management of national socialist history, former Nazis in the East German national planning commission, and working conditions for researchers of national socialist history at Germany's Bundeslandwirtschaftsministerium ministry.

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The essay discusses the connection between attitudes towards National Socialism (Nazism) following World War II and attitudes towards Jim Crow segregation laws and racial discrimination in the southern United States during the 1960s. Topics discussed include the connection of Nazi Germany and the southern U.S. in Harper Lee's novel "To Kill a Mockingbird," the impact of Stanley Kramer's film "Judgment at Nuremberg," and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963.

A report is presented from an August 9-11, 2011 conference in Tutzing, Germany on resistance to National Socialism in the 1940's. Topics of presentations given included the anti-Nazi espionage activities of German diplomat Fritz Kolbe, recognition for resistors, and the July 20, 1944 assassination attempt of German Fascist dictator Adolf Hitler.

The article discusses the work of German philosopher Martin Heidegger, including university courses he taught as the Nazi political party was rising to power in Germany, his book "Being and Time," and his "Bremen Lectures," in relation to Nazi ideology. Particular focus is given to the theme of Heidegger's 1933/1934 winter course "On the Essence of Truth" (Vom Wesen der Wahrheit) which highlighted German identity, history, domination and exterminating the enemy within the German polity. Heidegger's role in teaching Nazi ideology under the pretense of philosophy, particularly in his ontological concept of "being" and his dehumanization of Nazi concentration camp victims after World War II, is also presented.

The article presents a review of scholarship on German and German language historiography during the national socialist era. Among other topics addressed are modern scholarly views of the atrocities associated with the Holocaust as a large scale breakdown of the norms of civilized behavior, an overview of postwar German historical and historiographical research about the German national socialist era, and what role German historians played in the formulation of German national socialist ideology.

The article discusses an article by Reinhard Kreckel that mentions sociologist Karl Martin Bolte's activity as lecturer at the Akademie für Führungskräfte der Wirtschaft (Academy for Economy Executives). The author criticizes that no mention is made of the Academy director's National Socialist past. He cites examples of important NS sociologists, the concealment of their influence in post-war Germany, and pleads for an honest disclosure of NS ties in the historiography of German sociology.