History ETDs

Publication Date

4-25-1967

Abstract

The variety of motives and expectations that led German citizens to leave their homeland after Adolf Hitler’s ascension to power in 11933 has led historians to shun a comprehensive treatment of the German emigration. So great was this variety that a noted German journalist and former member of the emigration, Karl O. Paetel, observer that such a treatment is impossible and that the German emigration can only be understood from a study of individual cases. The present writer disagrees with Paetel’s assertion, but does agree that a treatment of the entire German emigration is a monumental task that will require an intensive study of the mass of emigration publications as well as a profound understanding of the many political and social viewpoints that arose during the Weimar era in Germany.

Level of Degree

Doctoral

Degree Name

History

Department Name

History

First Committee Member (Chair)

Gunther Eric Rothenberg

Second Committee Member

Henry Jack Tobias

Third Committee Member

Paul Jonas

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

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