Germanized Universities
The first Reichsuniversität started to work in Prague, November 4, 1939.
The University of Poznań was closed by the Nazi Occupation in 1939. It was reopened 1941 under the name of "Reichsuniversität Posen", as a "Grenzlanduniversität", aligned with the Nazi occupation forces' ideology. Its faculty included SS-Hauptsturmführer Reinhard Wittram and SS-Untersturmführer Ernst Petersen, who was a professor of the Department of Prehistory for one year, and anatomist Hermann Voss. Psychologist Rudolf Hippius worked on Nazi deportations. It ceased operations in 1944.
The University of Strasbourg was transferred to Clermont-Ferrand in 1939 and Reichsuniversität Straßburg existed 1941–1944. As Dean of the Medical School, August Hirt constituted a collection of 86 "Jewish skeletons" by organizing the transfer of Auschwitz prisoners who were subsequently murdered in the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp.
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