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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      29 July 2009
      27 April 2009
      ISBN:
      9780511576355
      9780521879064
      9780521181549
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511576355
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.9kg, 502 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.73kg, 502 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Science and Technology, Area Studies, Twentieth Century European History, History, European Studies
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    History of Science and Technology, Area Studies, Twentieth Century European History, History, European Studies
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    During the first part of the twentieth century, German science led the world. The most important scientific institution in Germany was the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, including institutes devoted to different fields of scientific research. These researchers were not burdened by teaching obligations and enjoyed excellent financial and material support. When the National Socialists came to power in Germany, all of German society, including science, was affected. The picture that previously dominated our understanding of science under National Socialism from the end of the Second World War to the recent past - a picture of leading Nazis ignorant and unappreciative of modern science and of scientists struggling to resist the Nazis - needs to be revised. This book surveys the history of Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes under Hitler, illustrating definitively the cooperation, if not collaboration, between scientists and National Socialists in order to further the goals of autarky, racial hygiene, war, and genocide.

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    'The volume thus gives an excellent overview of the complex entanglement of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes and their leading scientists with the National Socialist regime.'

    Source: The Journal of the BJHS

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