Surviving the Swastika
Scientific Research in Nazi Germany
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 10 February 1994
- ISBN 9780195070101
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 235x162x24 mm
- Weight 644 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 16 pp halftones 0
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Short description:
In the first book on the subject, Kristie Macrakis examines scientific research under National Socialism through the prism of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. Based on a trove of previously untapped archival sources in the former East and West Germany, printed material, and numerous interviews with scientists and administrators, this book provides a rich account of science under a totalitarian regime previously seen as a monolithic block, but here revealed as a montage of rival power blocks which allowed the survival of scientific research at a unique institution.
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Surviving the Swastika examines scientific research under National Socialism through the prism of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of the Sciences, the prestigious forerunner of the Max Planck Society. Home to over twenty Nobel-prize winning scientists, the 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-scale analysis of the Society's development within the context of the phases of a polycratic National Socialist state. A spectrum of responses to National Socialism existed there from moral probity to accommodation and opportunism. Macrakis uncovers this differentiated scientific and social landscape by covering topics ranging from Max Planck's failed negotiations with recalcitrant government officials regarding the expulsion of Jews and Communists to his success in securing a thriving community for basic biological research in Berlin-Dahlem, from the practice of nuclear power research to institutional growth.
Kristie Macrakis has written a very good book on a very important topic...well-reserached, well-argued, and an important contribution to our understanding of science under Hitler.
