Title Surviving the swastika : scientific research in Nazi Germany / Kristie Macrakis

Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1993

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Description xii, 280 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm Contents Beginnings -- Origins -- Germany's Scientific Hegemony Threatened -- Foundations -- First Creations -- World War I -- The Weimar Years -- The Poverty of German Science -- Scientists Take Control -- International Relations -- What's in a Name? -- Spawning Industry-Related Sciences -- That "Very Empyren of Science" in Berlin-Dahlem -- National Socialism -- From Accommodation to Passive Opposition, 1933-35 -- Forced Transformations -- Rifle at Rest -- The Consolidation Process -- Jewish Scientists Who Stayed or Delayed Departure -- Storm Troopers and Communists -- The Balance Sheet: Quantitative and Qualitative Losses -- Passive Opposition: the Haber Memorial Service -- National Socialist Science Policy and the Kaiser Wilhelm Society -- Universities -- Ministries Transformed -- Unification, Nationalization, and Control -- Military Science -- Mobilization for War -- The Turning Point, 1936-39 -- The Last Stand -- The Change in Leadership -- Research and the Four Year Plan -- International Exchange and Isolation -- The Survival of Basic Biological Research -- The Berlin Biological Community -- Scientifically or Politically Qualified? -- Viruses, Sex Hormones, and Mutation Genetics -- Funding for Basic Biological Research -- Eugenics at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes -- The War Years, 1939-45 -- Albert Vogler: The Perfect but Reluctant President, 1941 -- Greater Germany and the New Order of German Science -- For the Fatherland? -- Conditions of Research -- The Uranium Machine -- Uranium Fission -- Atomic Beginnings Analysis Germany Science Organisations History Germany Science Organisations History Notes Bibliography: p249-265. - Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-265) and index Subject Kaiser Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften -- History. Kaiser Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur F©œrderung der Wissenschaften -- History Kaiser Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften. Research -- Germany -- History. Science and state -- Germany -- History. Societies, Scientific -- history. Academies and Institutes -- history. National Socialism. Research -- history. SUBJECT Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054640 Germany. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005858 LC no. 93019919 ISBN 0195070100 acid-free paper 9780195070101 acid-free paper

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