Download or read book The Nazification of an Academic Discipline written by James R. Dow and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors examine the establishment of folklore departments at German and Austrian universities during the National Socialist era; the perversion of the discipline for political ends by the government; and the attempt to establish a pan-German Reich Institute as an instrument of a fascist ideology.