Today marks the launch of a special exhibition at Munich’s Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism presenting the history of the Technische Hochschule München (THM), which is now TUM, during the Nazi era. Prof. Winfried Nerdinger, founding director of the center and TUM Emeritus of Excellence, explains in this interview how students took action against Jewish professors, why THM was honored as an "exemplary war company" and why even scientists who were not National Socialists were willing to perform research for the regime.
As soon as the National Socialists seized power in 1933, THM students started organizing campaigns against Jewish professors and political opponents of the regime. ...
