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"The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William L. Shirer documented the many ways in which the German Socialist government censored academics and coerced teachers (though many were willing, as so many are now):
In the U.S., where the stiff-arm salute originated, laws compelled teachers and students to mechanically chant to the flag with the salute every morning on command. It had been a horrid example since 1892. That was in government schools that imposed segregation by law and taught racism as official policy.“The Civil Service Act of 1937 required teachers to be ‘the executors of the will of the party-supported State’ and to be ready ‘at any time to defend without reservation the National Socialist State.’ An earlier decree had classified them as civil servants and thus subject to the racial laws. Jews, of course, were forbidden to teach. All teachers took an oath to ‘be loyal and obedient to Adolf Hitler.’…
“As early as the autumn of 1933 some 960 of them, led by such luminaries as Professor Sauerbruch, the surgeon, Heidegger, the existentialist philosopher, and Pinder, the art historian, took a public vow to support Hitler and the National Socialist regime.”