Gregory Wegner
Biographic Data
| ID | 5812211 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gregory Wegner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gregory |
| FAMILY NAME | Wegner |
| SIGNATURE | WEGNER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–La Crosse |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Review of My Name Is Not Chief
My Name Is Not Chief: The Life of an American Indian. B. Blue and K. Koppelman, Bloomington, IN: Author House, 2015, 234 pages, $16.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-5049-6780-8.The book My Name Is Not C
Anti-Semitism and Schooling Under the Third Reich
This book investigates the anti-Semitic foundations of Nazi curricula for elementary schools, with a focus on the subjects of biology, history, and literature. Gregory Paul Wegner argues that any study of Nazi society and its values must probe the education provided by the regime. Schools, according to Wegner, play a major role in advancing ideological justifications for mass murder, and in legitimizing a culture of ethnic and racial hatred. Usin…
A Propagandist of Extermination
As one of the most prolific writers of anti‐Semitic propaganda in the Third Reich, Johann von Leers published numerous books, journal essays and daily press articles from 1930–1944. Leers wrote for a variety of German audiences including the general public, academics, party officials, children and school teachers. What constitutes the major focus for this study is the perspective of Johann von Leers on anti‐Semitism in the formation of young chil…
The Language of the Third Reich
1University of Wisconsin—La Crosse The Language of the Third Reich: LTI, Lingua Tertii Imperii: A Philologist's Notebook VictorKlemperer London Continuum 2001 New York Athlone Press 2002 304 cloth $ 115.00 Paperback $ 29.95
Wissenschaft als säkularer Kreuzzug
One of the earliest American reeducation programs designed for the transformation of political attitudes and the inculcation of American democratic ideals among Germans came into being shortly before the end of the Second World War. Initiated by the Special Projects Division of the War Department in 1944, this top secret experiment in reeducation brought together a group of university professors, including philosopher Thomas Vernon Smith from the…
In the Shadow of the Third Reich
Stolz, ein Deutscher zu sein
Education under Radical Change
Karl-Heinz Fuessl, Gregory Paul Wegner, Education under Radical Change: Education Policy and the Youth Program of the United States in Postwar Germany, History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Spring, 1996), pp. 1-18
Schooling for a New Mythos
The formation and teaching of race biology and anti‐ Semitism represented one of the darkest legacies left by Nazi Germany to the history of education In the West. Alfred Vogel, a biology curriculum writer and elementary school principal in Baden during the Third Reich, published a series of racist and anti‐Semitic teaching charts in 1938 to accompany a teacher's textbook on race biology intended for the instruction of elementary pupils. Unlike n…
Political Socialization and Schooling
Germany's Past Contested
Berlin, a focal point for Cold War tensions among the occupation powers, left to history an exceedingly rare and little-known instance of Allied cooperation in curriculum reform. In the midst of frequent ideological clashes, education officials on the Allied Kommandatura Education Committee (AKEC) concluded an agreement in the summer of 1948 on the formation of the postwar history curriculum for a new generation of German youth. The divided city …
Education under Radical Change
Karl-Heinz Fuessl, Gregory Paul Wegner, Education under Radical Change: Education Policy and the Youth Program of the United States in Postwar Germany, History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Spring, 1996), pp. 1-18
Political Socialization and Schooling
Germany's Past Contested
Berlin, a focal point for Cold War tensions among the occupation powers, left to history an exceedingly rare and little-known instance of Allied cooperation in curriculum reform. In the midst of frequent ideological clashes, education officials on the Allied Kommandatura Education Committee (AKEC) concluded an agreement in the summer of 1948 on the formation of the postwar history curriculum for a new generation of German youth. The divided city …
A Propagandist of Extermination
As one of the most prolific writers of anti‐Semitic propaganda in the Third Reich, Johann von Leers published numerous books, journal essays and daily press articles from 1930–1944. Leers wrote for a variety of German audiences including the general public, academics, party officials, children and school teachers. What constitutes the major focus for this study is the perspective of Johann von Leers on anti‐Semitism in the formation of young chil…
Germany's Past Contested
Berlin, a focal point for Cold War tensions among the occupation powers, left to history an exceedingly rare and little-known instance of Allied cooperation in curriculum reform. In the midst of frequent ideological clashes, education officials on the Allied Kommandatura Education Committee (AKEC) concluded an agreement in the summer of 1948 on the formation of the postwar history curriculum for a new generation of German youth. The divided city …
Schooling for a New Mythos
The formation and teaching of race biology and anti‐ Semitism represented one of the darkest legacies left by Nazi Germany to the history of education In the West. Alfred Vogel, a biology curriculum writer and elementary school principal in Baden during the Third Reich, published a series of racist and anti‐Semitic teaching charts in 1938 to accompany a teacher's textbook on race biology intended for the instruction of elementary pupils. Unlike n…
Political Socialization and Schooling
In the Shadow of the Third Reich
Stolz, ein Deutscher zu sein
Education under Radical Change
Karl-Heinz Fuessl, Gregory Paul Wegner, Education under Radical Change: Education Policy and the Youth Program of the United States in Postwar Germany, History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Spring, 1996), pp. 1-18
Wissenschaft als säkularer Kreuzzug
One of the earliest American reeducation programs designed for the transformation of political attitudes and the inculcation of American democratic ideals among Germans came into being shortly before the end of the Second World War. Initiated by the Special Projects Division of the War Department in 1944, this top secret experiment in reeducation brought together a group of university professors, including philosopher Thomas Vernon Smith from the…
The Language of the Third Reich
1University of Wisconsin—La Crosse The Language of the Third Reich: LTI, Lingua Tertii Imperii: A Philologist's Notebook VictorKlemperer London Continuum 2001 New York Athlone Press 2002 304 cloth $ 115.00 Paperback $ 29.95
A Propagandist of Extermination
As one of the most prolific writers of anti‐Semitic propaganda in the Third Reich, Johann von Leers published numerous books, journal essays and daily press articles from 1930–1944. Leers wrote for a variety of German audiences including the general public, academics, party officials, children and school teachers. What constitutes the major focus for this study is the perspective of Johann von Leers on anti‐Semitism in the formation of young chil…
Anti-Semitism and Schooling Under the Third Reich
This book investigates the anti-Semitic foundations of Nazi curricula for elementary schools, with a focus on the subjects of biology, history, and literature. Gregory Paul Wegner argues that any study of Nazi society and its values must probe the education provided by the regime. Schools, according to Wegner, play a major role in advancing ideological justifications for mass murder, and in legitimizing a culture of ethnic and racial hatred. Usin…
A Review of My Name Is Not Chief
My Name Is Not Chief: The Life of an American Indian. B. Blue and K. Koppelman, Bloomington, IN: Author House, 2015, 234 pages, $16.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-5049-6780-8.The book My Name Is Not C
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