While the Gleichschaltung of all cultural and intellectual life disrupted the lives and careers of some of Germany’s most talented writers and scientists, it also created opportunities for others. The students who had so enthusiastically organized and participated in the book burning were next in line to fill many of the newly created academic vacancies, thus turning the sciences as well as the humanities into a purely German concern. There were even attempts to lay the theoretical groundwork for an ideologically pure German physics and mathematics that could function without the contributions
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