| Description |
xix, 422 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Scientists, Engineers and National Socialism / Monika Renneberg and Mark Walker -- 2. Keinerlei Untergang: German Armaments Engineers during the Second World War and in the Service of the Victorious Powers / Andreas Heinemann-Gruder -- 3. The Guided Missile and the Third Reich: Peenemunde and the Forging of a Technological Revolution / Michael J. Neufeld -- 4. Self-mobilization or Resistance? Aeronautical Research and National Socialism / Helmuth Trischler -- 5. Military Technology and National Socialist Ideology / Ulrich Albrecht -- 6. 'Area Research' and 'Spatial Planning' from the Weimar Republic to the German Federal Republic: Creating a Society with a Spatial Order under National Socialism / Mechtild Rossler -- 7. The Ideological Origins of Institutes at the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft in National Socialist Germany / Kristie Macrakis -- 8. Biological Research at Universities and Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes in Nazi Germany / Ute Deichmann and Benno Muller-Hill |
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9. Pedagogy, Professionalism and Politics: Biology Instruction during the Third Reich / Sheila Faith Weiss -- 10. The Whole and the Community: Scientific and Political Reasoning in the Holistic psychology of Felix Krueger / Ulfried Geuter -- 11. Pascual Jordan: Quantum Mechanics, Psychoiogy, National Socialism / M. Norton Wise -- 12. The Ideology of Early Particle Accelerators: An Association between Knowledge and Power / Maria Osietzki -- 13. The 'Minerva' Project. The Accelerator Laboratory at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute/Max Planck Institute of Chemistry: Continuity in Fundamental Research / Burghard Weiss -- 14. The Social System of Mathematics and National Socialism: A Survey / Herbert Mehrtens -- 15. The Problem of anti-Fascist Resistance of 'Apolitical' German Scholars / Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze -- 16. Irresponsible Purity: The Political and Moral Structure of Mathematical Sciences in the National Socialist State / Herbert Mehrtens |
| Analysis |
Germany |
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Science History |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-413) and index |
| Subject |
Engineering -- Germany -- History.
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Fascism -- Germany -- History.
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National socialism and science -- History.
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Science -- Germany -- History.
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| Author |
Renneberg, Monika.
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Walker, Mark, 1959-
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| LC no. |
92041633 |
| ISBN |
052140374X (hardback) |
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