03624nam 2200637Ia 450 991046486540332120200520144314.097866111488740-19-152561-81-4356-2122-01-281-14887-3(CKB)2560000000298335(EBL)415918(OCoLC)437096343(SSID)ssj0000201285(PQKBManifestationID)11179048(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000201285(PQKBWorkID)10232010(PQKB)11270509(StDuBDS)EDZ0000072272(MiAaPQ)EBC415918(Au-PeEL)EBL415918(CaPaEBR)ebr10219885(CaONFJC)MIL114887(EXLCZ)99256000000029833520070702d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe mental aftermath[electronic resource] the mentality of German physicists 1945-1949 /Klaus HentschellNew York ;Oxford Oxford University Press20071 online resource (212 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-920566-3 0-19-170938-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-197) and index.Contents; List of figures; 1 Introduction; About the sources used; 2 Scientists in Germany seen from the outside; 3 Tensions with the Allies; (a) Superficial admiration and opportunistic friendliness; (b) Covert reserve and distrust; (c) Stubborn resistance to Allied Control; 4 Russian phobia; 5 Sense of isolation and fragmentation; 6 Bitterness about the ""export of scientists""; 7 Scapegoating the Aryan physics movement; 8 Forgetting; (a) Amnesia and unconscious repression; (b) Concealment and dissimilation; 9 Shame, listlessness, and lethargy; 10 Self-justification and the guilt issue11 Self-pity, sentimentality, and selfishness12 ""Propaganda-free day-to-day"" and political apathy; 13 New awareness of a scientist's responsibility; 14 Workaholism: ""If we want to live, we must rebuild""; 15 Side-lining of emigrés and critics; 16 Insensitivity in communicating with emigrés; 17 Distrust and obduracy among emigrés; 18 The mental aftermath; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Archival collections; Bibliography; Name index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; ZThe perplexing behaviour of even morally acclaimed German physicists toward the Allied occupiers after WWII is examined. Their public and private statements are examined and may shed light on the prickly issue of the proper comportment of victor nations. - ;Few scientific communities have been more thoroughly studied than 20th-century German physicists. Yet their behaviour and patterns of thinking immediately after the war remains puzzling. During the first five post war years they suspended their internecine battles and a strange solidarity emerged. Former enemies were suddenly willing to exoPhysicistsGermanyHistory20th centuryScience and stateGermanyHistory20th centuryGermanyHistory1945-1955Electronic books.PhysicistsHistoryScience and stateHistory530.092243Hentschel Klaus969765MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464865403321The mental aftermath2203748UNINA