![]() ![]() The authors concluded that the denial of tenure was not politically motivated, but was based on clearly defined professional criteria nonetheless, they wrote, in the situation Rutgers’ chief interest had been not justice, but "to protect the university from unfavorable publicity." McCormick, and Daniel Horn to investigate Bergel’s charges, and they produced The Case of the Nazi Professor in 1989. As a result, Rutgers’ administration commissioned history professors David M. ![]() (Five years later, just before the United States entered World War II against Hitler, Hauptmann renamed to Nazi Germany.)įifty years after the denial of Bergel’s tenure, New York and New Jersey newspaper stories resurrected the subject. Bergel charged that he had been blacklisted for political reasons by Hauptmann, who was sympathetic to the Nazi Party then in control of Germany. Hauptmann, chairman of the Department of German at Rutgers, denied tenure to Dienhard Bergel, an instructor who had recently emigrated from Europe. Oshinsky has written about a number of phenomena of twentieth-century America, including one that took place at the university where he taught history, Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Noted by critics and peers for his scholarship and his restrained, balanced treatment of his subject matter, historian David M. ![]()
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