PING ! Excellent research on the academics and ideologues who gave the rise of the Nazi Ideology in Germany and the Holocaust.
I think that this statement should have been more clearly written. While German universities may have helped spread the ideals of Nazism, it is wrong to say that it was the "originator" of Nazism. Hitler, in response to the Versailles Treaty, was the originator of Nazism. I don't recall ever hearing about Hitler studying at a university and then deciding to form the Nazi party. I don't recall ever even hearing about Hitler even attending a school of higher learning. He was refused by an art school though.
I don't mean to nit pick, but I disagree with this premise. The Nazi movement began, and grew powerful, thanks to uneducated street thugs and disaffected military veterans.
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Have you no respect for the sanctity of a research grant?
If then:
"Sieg Heil, Professor!" or "Heil Hitler, Professor!". Nobody would say soley "Heil" in Germany. The word alone is not linked with the nazi ideology.
BTW - the American word creations in German are sometimes quite funny. I once had a fierce discussion with a former US-Marine who insisted on the completely ridicolous word construction "Teufelshunden" (BuHuHaHa!) for his unit. He even showed me a old US propaganda poster where "Teufelshunden" was written upon. "Teufelshunde" (devil dogs) or "Hunde des Teufels" would be okay, but the official expression of the Marines is just funny BS for everybody who is able to speak German. I do not doubt that the Wehmacht called their oponents Devil Dogs, but I doubt that it happend in the way the Marines are telling it today.