Physics And National Socialism

Author : Klaus Hentschel
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783034890083

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Physics and National Socialism by Klaus Hentschel Pdf

"[The author] has done a great service to historians of modern physics by editing this first anthology of primary sources, excellently translated into English... The texts are well selected and range widely, from private correspondence and official memoranda to articles dealing with physics in a propagandistic or popular manner... Many of the sources are extremely interesting and appear here for the first time. Their value is further enhanced by the editor's cross-referencing and detailed notes... [The book] is also a fine introduction to the entire subject. [The] 101-page 'introduction' gives an admirable survey of German physics during the Nazi period as well as a thorough discussion of the historiography of the subject... [The book] is of such quality and usefulness that were I to choose a single book on the history of physics in the Third Reich this might well be the one." H. Kragh, Centaurus

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3034802048

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Physics and National Socialism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alan D. Beyerchen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300241389

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Scientists under Hitler by Alan D. Beyerchen Pdf

The treatment of German physicists under the Nazi regime had far-reaching consequences both for the outcome of the Second World War and for the course of science for decades thereafter. Although this fact has been known from a few famous episodes, it has not been dealt with thoroughly by scholars because it involves two very different disciplines. Political historians have cautiously left it to historians of science, who in turn have shied away from it out of ignorance of the political intricacies. Alan D. Beyerchen here examines this history in detail, basing his research on archival materials in Germany and the United States and on tape-recorded interviews with leading physicists. At least twenty-five percent of Germany's academic physicists who were working in 1933 lost their positions during the Nazi period. The victims -- Jews and other "politically unreliable" persons -- included some of Germany's finest scientists. Those who remained faced opposition not only from Nazi officials but also from certain members of their own community, notably the Nobel laureates Philipp Lenard and Johannes Stark. Beyerchen describes the mechanisms of prejudice, the reaction to the dismissals, and the impact of the "Aryan physics" movement which ultimately failed.

Author : Monika Renneberg,Mark Walker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521528607

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Science, Technology, and National Socialism by Monika Renneberg,Mark Walker Pdf

This 1993 book provides a survey of the development of scientific disciplines and technical projects under National Socialism in Germany. Each contribution addresses a different aspect which is important for judging the interaction between science, technology and National Socialism. In particular, the personal conduct of individual scientists and engineers as well as the functionality of certain theories and projects are examined. All essays share a common theme: continuity and discontinuity. All authors cover a period from the Weimar Republic to the post-war period. This unanimity of approach provides answers to major questions about the nature of Hitler's regime and about possible lines of continuity in science and technology which may transcend political upheaval. The book is also the most comprehensive to date on this subject, and includes essays on engineering, geography, biology, psychology, physics, mathematics, and science policy.

Author : Philip Ball
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226204574

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Serving the Reich by Philip Ball Pdf

The compelling story of leading physicists in Germany—including Peter Debye, Max Planck, and Werner Heisenberg—and how they accommodated themselves to working within the Nazi state in the 1930s and ’40s. After World War II, most scientists in Germany maintained that they had been apolitical or actively resisted the Nazi regime, but the true story is much more complicated. In Serving the Reich, Philip Ball takes a fresh look at that controversial history, contrasting the career of Peter Debye, director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics in Berlin, with those of two other leading physicists in Germany during the Third Reich: Max Planck, the elder statesman of physics after whom Germany’s premier scientific society is now named, and Werner Heisenberg, who succeeded Debye as director of the institute when it became focused on the development of nuclear power and weapons. Mixing history, science, and biography, Ball’s gripping exploration of the lives of scientists under Nazism offers a powerful portrait of moral choice and personal responsibility, as scientists navigated “the grey zone between complicity and resistance.” Ball’s account of the different choices these three men and their colleagues made shows how there can be no clear-cut answers or judgment of their conduct. Yet, despite these ambiguities, Ball makes it undeniable that the German scientific establishment as a whole mounted no serious resistance to the Nazis, and in many ways acted as a willing instrument of the state. Serving the Reich considers what this problematic history can tell us about the relationship between science and politics today. Ultimately, Ball argues, a determination to present science as an abstract inquiry into nature that is “above politics” can leave science and scientists dangerously compromised and vulnerable to political manipulation.

Author : Dieter Hoffmann,Mark Walker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107006843

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The German Physical Society in the Third Reich by Dieter Hoffmann,Mark Walker Pdf

This book details the effects of the Nazi regime on the German Physical Society.

Author : Mark Walker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1992-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0521438047

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German National Socialism and the Quest for Nuclear Power, 1939-49 by Mark Walker Pdf

This a paperback edition of Professor Walker's full-scale examination of the German efforts to harness the economic, military and political power of nuclear fission between 1939 and 1949. The book explains clearly, in terms that the non-specialist can understand, what was involved in the Germans' quest, and in what ways the German scientists succeeded or failed in the development of 'the bomb'.

Author : Nelson Edmondson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89085970382

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Some Aspects of the Politicization of Science in National Socialist Germany by Nelson Edmondson Pdf

Author : Alan Beyerchen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : National socialism
ISBN : OCLC:1170356855

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Scientists Under Hitler by Alan Beyerchen Pdf

Author : Joseph P. Farrell
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781935487593

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Nazi International by Joseph P. Farrell Pdf

Physicist and Oxford educated historian Joseph P. Farrell continues his best-selling series of exposés on secret Nazi technology, Nazi survival, and post-war Nazi manipulation of various manufacturing technologies, economies and whole countries. Beginning with pre-War corporate partnerships in the USA, including the Bush family, he moves on to the surrender of Nazi Germany, and evacuation plans of the Germans. He then covers the vast, and still-little-known recreation of Nazi Germany in South America with help of Juan Peron, I.G. Farben and Martin Bormann. Farrell then covers Nazi Germany’s Penetration of the Muslim World including Wilhelm Voss and Otto Skorzeny in Gamel Abdul Nasser’s Egypt before moving onto the development and control of New Energy Technologies including the Bariloche Fusion Project, Dr. Philo Farnsworth’s Plasmator, and the Work of Dr. Nikolai Kozyrev. Finally, Farrell discusses the Nazi desire to control space, and examines their connection with NASA, the esoteric meaning of NASA Mission Patches, plus final chapters on: Alchemy, Esotericism, The SS and the Unified Field Theory Craze; 1943-1945: Strange Events from the end of World War II and other “Postwar Shenanigans.” This book is literally packed with information.

Author : Mark Walker
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465011889

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Nazi Science by Mark Walker Pdf

In this book, Mark Walker - a historical scholar of Nazi science - brings to light the overwhelming impact of Hitler's regime on science and, ultimately, on the pursuit of the German atomic bomb. Walker meticulously draws on hundreds of original documents to examine the role of German scientists in the rise and fall of the Third Reich. He investigates whether most German scientists during Hitler's regime enthusiastically embraced the tenets of National Socialism or cooperated in a Faustian pact for financial support, which contributed to National Socialism's running rampant and culminated in the rape of Europe and the genocide of millions of Jews. This work unravels the myths and controversies surrounding Hitler's atomic bomb project. It provides a look at what surprisingly turned out to be an Achilles' heel for Hitler - the misuse of science and scientists in the service of the Third Reich.

Author : Klaus Hentschel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-02
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783034802031

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Physics and National Socialism by Klaus Hentschel Pdf

1 Aim and General Description of the Anthology The purpose of this anthology is to introduce the English speaking public to the wide spectrum of texts authored predominently by physicists portraying the ac tual and perceived role of physics in the Nazi state. Up to now no broad and well balanced documentation of German physics during this time has been available in English, despite the significant role physics has played both politically (e. g. , in weaponry planning) and ideologically (e. g. , in the controversy over the value of theoretical ('Jewish') vs. experimental ('Aryan') physics), and even though prominent figures like the scientist-philosopher and emigre Albert Einstein and the controversial nuclear physicist Werner Heisenberg have become household names. This anthology will attempt to bridge this gap by presenting contempo rary documents and eye-witness accounts by the physicists themselves. Authors were chosen to represent the various political opinions and specialties within the physics community, omitting some of the more readily accessible texts by leading physicists (e. g. , Einstein, Heisenberg, Lenard) in favor of those by less well-known but nonetheless important figures (e. g. , Finkelnburg, Max Wien, Ramsauer). In this way we hope not only to circumvent the constricted 'Great Men' approach to history but also to offer a broader picture of the activities and conflicts within the field and the effects of the political forces exerted upon them.

Author : Susanne Heim,Carola Sachse,Mark Walker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521879064

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The Kaiser Wilhelm Society Under National Socialism by Susanne Heim,Carola Sachse,Mark Walker Pdf

This book examines the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes under Hitler, illustrating the cooperation between scientists and National Socialists in service of autarky, racial hygiene, war, and genocide.

Author : Paul Lawrence Rose
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520927162

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Heisenberg and the Nazi Atomic Bomb Project, 1939-1945 by Paul Lawrence Rose Pdf

No one better represents the plight and the conduct of German intellectuals under Hitler than Werner Heisenberg, whose task it was to build an atomic bomb for Nazi Germany. The controversy surrounding Heisenberg still rages, because of the nature of his work and the regime for which it was undertaken. What precisely did Heisenberg know about the physics of the atomic bomb? How deep was his loyalty to the German government during the Third Reich? Assuming that he had been able to build a bomb, would he have been willing? These questions, the moral and the scientific, are answered by Paul Lawrence Rose with greater accuracy and breadth of documentation than any other historian has yet achieved. Digging deep into the archival record among formerly secret technical reports, Rose establishes that Heisenberg never overcame certain misconceptions about nuclear fission, and as a result the German leaders never pushed for atomic weapons. In fact, Heisenberg never had to face the moral problem of whether he should design a bomb for the Nazi regime. Only when he and his colleagues were interned in England and heard about Hiroshima did Heisenberg realize that his calculations were wrong. He began at once to construct an image of himself as a "pure" scientist who could have built a bomb but chose to work on reactor design instead. This was fiction, as Rose demonstrates: in reality, Heisenberg blindly supported and justified the cause of German victory. The question of why he did, and why he misrepresented himself afterwards, is answered through Rose's subtle analysis of German mentality and the scientists' problems of delusion and self-delusion. This fascinating study is a profound effort to understand one of the twentieth century's great enigmas.

Author : Jean Medawar,David Pyke
Publisher : Piatkus Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015051551995

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Hitler's Gift by Jean Medawar,David Pyke Pdf

'With material drawn from more than 20 surviving refungee scientists, this is an aweinspiring book.' The Sunday Telegraph'a fascinating account of the thousands of Jewish scientists who left Germany under the Nazis and enriched world science.' New Scientist