Louis Hamilton : a British scholar in Nazi Germany

Louis Hamilton was a British national that lectured at various institutions of higher learning in Berlin from 1904-1914, and 1919-1938. During the Third Reich Hamilton was framed as being half-Jewish and hist continued presence at institutions of higher learning was considered undesirable. Hamilton like other foreign born academics was coerced to leave Germany because the Nazi educational system viewed them as being politically unreliable. Hamilton's experiences are an illustration of what foreign academics suffered during the Third Reich. The purpose of this article is to shed new light on the fate of foreign academics in Nazi Germany. Although the fate of Jewish professors and students has been researched non-Jewish and non-Aryan instructors has been a neglected topic within the history of Nazism.