Third Reich Medievalists: National Psychology and the Study of Chaucer

Recent piece for medievalists.net:

We are in Germany in 1933: After the assimilation of the military, civil service, and the judiciary, Adolf Hitler and his followers move their attention to the universities, first dismissing Jewish and then left-leaning faculty and threatening everyone else with firing them or cutting their research support unless they align with the new government’s priorities.

The Nazis select the liberal University of Frankfurt as one of their first targets, eliminating resistance by appointing a Nazi official as political Commissar at the institution. READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE