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| 1934. He then taught at the University
of Koenigsberg (where he also took up the position of press director of the
German Students' Association). In 1936 he received the high academic degree of
Dr. phil. habil. from the University of Heidelberg, and became Dozent in the
faculty of law and political science at Koenigsberg; later, he passed
examinations for the venia legendi at the University of Leipzig. By
1938, he was Professor at the University of Koenigsberg, and by 1939, he had
obtained the chair for Foreign Political Science at the University of Berlin
and was its first dean of the faculty for foreign countries. It is to be supposed that with this formidable array of scholastic achievements, duly enumerated by the defendant himself, the youth who came to him for guidance and instruction could expect in him a comparable degree of achievement in moral honesty. Unfortunately, this may not have been true, and therein is a tragedy of its own. A school teacher is bound in conscience to hold himself impeccable in deportment because of the example he constantly presents the future citizens of the state. The example afforded by Six left something to be desired. Reference will be made to the defendant's own words on the witness stand in support of this observation. In the early part of his testimony, on 29 October 1947, Six related to the Tribunal the tale of his student days at the University of Heidelberg. He said — |
"I carried on my studies at Heidelberg for four years on an average of twenty marks a month. I needed eleven marks to live in an attic, and that left me nine marks to live on. Nine marks; that meant thirty pfennigs a day, at ten pfennigs for four rolls in the evening, and ten pfennigs for cigarettes, and this I lived through — for four years in the midst of Heidelberg Student Romanticism, where the main problems were welfare and donation and then I asked myself whether society was still healthy, if it finds so much complacency, and how it can reconcile this complacency with so much distress." |
| Then on his own words he solved the enigma,
"The answer which I gave myself was joining the Nazi Party." The fact of the matter was, however, as his own personnel record showed, he had become a Nazi in 1930, that is, even before he matriculated at the University of Heidelberg, so that whatever advantages, benefits, and comforts derived from National Socialism were already due to him at Heidelberg. Thus, by failing to tap the munificent resources which Nazism offered, while already a full-fledged Nazi, Six suffered needlessly during those four sad years at Heidelberg. There is another illustration. Six declared he had no animosity |
