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Strategies and Mechanisms of Scholar Rescue: The Intellectual Migration of the 1930s Reconsidered
Long a fact of life for individual scholars, the forced migration of academics became a mass phenomenon during the Nazi era. The international academic community responded with a range of initiatives to help endangered scientists and scholars migrate from Germany (and later German-annexed or occupie...
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Published in: | Social research 2017-12, Vol.84 (4), p.769-807 |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Summary: | Long a fact of life for individual scholars, the forced migration of academics became a mass phenomenon during the Nazi era. The international academic community responded with a range of initiatives to help endangered scientists and scholars migrate from Germany (and later German-annexed or occupied territories) and to continue their careers abroad. This essay analyzes the strategies and mechanisms that aided 2,000 German refugee academics between 1933 and 1945. Although scholar rescue initiatives today employ some of those strategies, they face formidable structural obstacles that make a repeat of the success of the Nazi era rescue effort unlikely. |
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ISSN: | 0037-783X 1944-768X 1944-768X |
DOI: | 10.1353/sor.2017.0051 |