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 the Deutsche Studentenschaft (German Student Union) in town squares, e.g. in Berlin, and the curricula were subsequently modified.

Hans Sedlmayr, a declared National Socialist, led an art institute throughout the war.

[1] The University of Poznań was closed by the German Occupation in 1939, and reopened on April 27, 1941 as Reichsuniversität Posen,[1] a Grenzlanduniversität aligned with Nazi ideology.

Its faculty included historian Reinhard Wittram [de] and anatomist Hermann Voss.

The University of Strasbourg was transferred to Clermont-Ferrand in 1939 and Reichsuniversität Straßburg existed from November 23, 1941[1] until the Allied recapture of the city in 1944.