In a recently uploaded lecture, British historian and Hoover Institution fellow Niall Ferguson discussed the issue of legitimisation of Nazi ideology in German academia and universities during the 1920s and 1930s and through to the end of World War Two, such as the fact that some German historians produced "tendentious historical justifications for German territorial claims in Eastern Europe." Ferguson suggests in summation that far from inoculating against Nazism in this period, a university degree made it more likely that one would embrace the ideology.
Whether or not one agrees with Ferguson's broader conclusion or his attempts to draw a comparison with present-day Western academia (e.g. responses to the 7 October attack in Israel and the aftermath), the historical topic of 'academic Nazism' is itself interesting and a useful illustration of how very bad ideas can be legitimised under the guise of seemingly sophisticated, academic discourse.
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