Surviving the Swastika [[electronic resource] ] : Scientific Research in Nazi Germany

• Autore: Macrakis Kristie
• Pubblicazione: Oxford University Press, 1994
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (311 p.)
• Disciplina: 50604309043; 509.43
• Soggetto topico: History; Research; Research - Germany - History; Science and state; Research - History - Germany; Science and state - History - Germany; National Socialism; Academies and Institutes; Societies, Scientific; Societies; Organizations; Science; Political Systems; Health Care Economics and Organizations; Social Sciences; Natural Science Disciplines; Occupations; Health Care; Sciences - General; Physical Sciences & Mathematics
• Soggetto geografico: Germany Politics and government 1933-1945
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""PART I: BEGINNINGS""; ""1 Origins""; ""Germany's Scientific Hegemony Threatened""; ""Foundations""; ""First Creations""; ""World War I""; ""2 The Weimar Years""; ""The Poverty of German Science""; ""Scientists Take Control""; ""International Relations""; ""What's in a Name?""; ""Spawning Industry-Related Sciences""; ""That ""Very Empyrean of Science"" in Berlin-Dahlem""; ""PART II: NATIONAL SOCIALISM""; ""3 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""; ""4 National Socialist Science Policy and the Kaiser Wilhelm Society""; ""Universities""; ""Ministries Transformed""; ""Unification, Nationalization, and Control""; ""Military Science""; ""Mobilization for War""; ""5 The Turning Point, 1936-39""; ""The Last Stand""; ""The Change in Leadership""; ""Research and the Four Year Plan""; ""International Exchange and Isolation"" ; ""6 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""; ""7 The War Years, 1939-45""; ""Albert Vögler: The Perfect but Reluctant President, 1941""; ""Greater Germany and the New Order of German Science""; ""For the Fatherland?""; ""Conditions of Research""; ""8 The Uranium Machine""; ""Uranium Fission""; ""Atomic Beginnings""; ""Nuclear Power Conferences in Berlin-Dahlem, 1942"" ; ""The Final War Years""""Uranium Machine Experiments in the Bunker and Cave""; ""Alsos, Farm Hall, and Operation Epsilon""; ""Epilogue""; ""Conclusion""; ""Appendix""; ""Notes""; ""Sources""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
• Sommario/riassunto: Surviving the Swastika examines scientific research under National Socialism through the prism of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of the Sciences, a semi-private umbrella organization which founded and maintained institutes for basic scientific research. Home to over twentyNobel-prize winning scientists, the prestigious forerunner of the Max Planck Society was at the forefront of scientific advance in the first half of the twentieth century. Surprisingly, the Society not only survived National Socialism, but often thrived. Kristie Macrakis provides a full-scaleanalysis of the So
• Titolo autorizzato: Surviving the Swastika
• ISBN: 0-19-972817-8; 1-280-44100-3; 9786610441006; 1-60129-827-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808166003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II