The Gas Mask In Interwar Germany

Author : Peter Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781009314831

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The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany by Peter Thompson Pdf

Exploring the history of the gas mask in Germany from 1915 to the eve of the Second World War, Peter Thompson traces how chemical weapons and protective technologies like the gas mask produced new relationships to danger, risk, management and mastery in the modern age of mass destruction. Recounting the apocalyptic visions of chemical death that circulated in interwar Germany, he argues that while everyday encounters with the gas mask tended to exacerbate fears, the gas mask also came to symbolize debates about the development of military and chemical technologies in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. He underscores how the gas mask was tied into the creation of an exclusionary national community under the Nazis and the altered perception of environmental danger in the second half of the twentieth century. As this innovative new history shows, chemical warfare and protection technologies came to represent poignant visions of the German future.

Author : Susan R. Grayzel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139502504

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At Home and under Fire by Susan R. Grayzel Pdf

Although the Blitz has come to symbolize the experience of civilians under attack, Germany first launched air raids on Britain at the end of 1914 and continued them during the First World War. With the advent of air warfare, civilians far removed from traditional battle zones became a direct target of war rather than a group shielded from its impact. This is a study of how British civilians experienced and came to terms with aerial warfare during the First and Second World Wars. Memories of the World War I bombings shaped British responses to the various real and imagined war threats of the 1920s and 1930s, including the bombing of civilians during the Spanish Civil War and, ultimately, the Blitz itself. The processes by which different constituent bodies of the British nation responded to the arrival of air power reveal the particular role that gender played in defining civilian participation in modern war.

Author : Susan R. Grayzel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108491273

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The Age of the Gas Mask by Susan R. Grayzel Pdf

Uncovers how a material object - the civilian gas mask - can reveal the power and limits of the modern state facing total war.

Author : Amir Teicher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108499491

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Social Mendelism by Amir Teicher Pdf

Will revolutionize reader's understanding of the principles of modern genetics, Nazi racial policies and the relationship between them.

Author : Helen Louise Cowie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108495172

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Victims of Fashion by Helen Louise Cowie Pdf

Examines the extensive use of animal commodities in Victorian Britain and the humanitarian and ecological issues raised by their consumption.

Author : William H. Brock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521524733

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Justus Von Liebig by William H. Brock Pdf

One of the founding fathers of organic chemistry and also a great teacher, the German scientist Justus von Liebig transformed scientific education, medical practice, and agriculture in Great Britain. William H. Brock's fresh interpretation of Liebig's stormy career shows how he moved chemistry into the sociopolitical marketplace, demonstrating its significance for society in food production, nutrition, and public health. Through his controversial ideas on artificial fertilizers and recycling, his theory of disease, and his stimulating suggestions concerning food and nutrition, he warned the world of the dangers of failing to recycle sewage or to replace soil nutrients. Liebig also played the role of an elder statesman of European science by commenting, via popular lectures and expansions of his readable Chemical Letters, on such issues as scientific methodology and materialism.

Author : John E. Lesch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401593779

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The German Chemical Industry in the Twentieth Century by John E. Lesch Pdf

In the twentieth century, dyes, pharmaceuticals, photographic products, explosives, insecticides, fertilizers, synthetic rubber, fuels, and fibers, plastics, and other products have flowed out of the chemical industry and into the consumer economies, war machines, farms, and medical practices of industrial societies. The German chemical industry has been a major site for the development and application of the science-based technologies that gave rise to these products, and has had an important role as exemplar, stimulus, and competitor in the international chemical industry. This volume explores the German chemical industry's scientific and technological dimension, its international connections, and its development after 1945. The authors relate scientific and technological change in the industry to evolving German political and economic circumstances, including two world wars, the rise and fall of National Socialism, the post-war division of Germany, and the emergence of a global economy. This book will be of interest to historians of modern Germany, to historians of science and technology, and to business and economic historians.

Author : Joachim Krause,Charles Mallory
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1992-09-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X002135699

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Chemical Weapons In Soviet Military Doctrine by Joachim Krause,Charles Mallory Pdf

Author : Mitchell G. Ash
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521646278

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Gestalt Psychology in German Culture, 1890-1967 by Mitchell G. Ash Pdf

A full-length historical study of Gestalt psychology in Germany, based on exhaustive research in primary sources.

Author : Ricky W. Law
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108474634

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Transnational Nazism by Ricky W. Law Pdf

The first English-language study of German-Japanese interwar relations to employ sources in both languages.

Author : Charles E Heller
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1727402103

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Chemical Warfare in World War I by Charles E Heller Pdf

This Leavenworth Paper chronicles the introduction of chemical agents in World War I, the U.S. Army's tentative preparations for gas warfare prior to and after American entry into the war, and the AEF experience with gas on the Western Front. Chemical warfare affected tactics and almost changed the outcome of World War I. The overwhelming success of the first use of gas caught both sides by surprise. Fortunately, the pace of hostilities permitted the Allies to develop a suitable defense to German gas attacks and eventually to field a considerable offensive chemical capability. Nonetheless, from the introduction of chemical warfare in early 1915 until Armistice Day in November, 1918, the Allies were usually one step behind their German counterparts in the development of gas doctrine and the employment of gas tactics and procedures. In his final report to Congress on World War I, General John J. Pershing expressed the sentiment of contemporary senior officers when he said, "Whether or not gas will be employed in future wars is a matter of conjecture, but the effect is so deadly to the unprepared that we can never afford to neglect the question." General Pershing was the last American field commander actually to confront chemical agents on the battlefield. Today, in light of a significant Soviet chemical threat and solid evidence of chemical warfare in Southeast and Southwest Asia, it is by no means certain he will retain that distinction. Over 50 percent of the Total Army's Chemical Corps assets are located within the United States Army Reserve. This Leavenworth Paper was prepared by the USAA Staff Officer serving with the Combat Studies Institute, USACGSC, after a number of requests from USAA Chemical Corps officers for a historical study on the nature of chemical warfare in World War I. Despite originally being published in 1984, this Leavenworth Paper also meets the needs of the Total Army in its preparations to fight, if necessary, on a battlefield where chemical agents might be employed.

Author : Jonathan Mallory House
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Armies
ISBN : 9781428915831

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Toward Combined Arms Warfare by Jonathan Mallory House Pdf

Author : Fracapane, Karel,Haß, Matthias,Topography of Terror Foundation (Germany)
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789231000423

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Holocaust education in a global context by Fracapane, Karel,Haß, Matthias,Topography of Terror Foundation (Germany) Pdf

"International interest in Holocaust education has reached new heights in recent years. This historic event has long been central to cultures of remembrance in those countries where the genocide of the Jewish people occurred. But other parts of the world have now begun to recognize the history of the Holocaust as an effective means to teach about mass violence and to promote human rights and civic duty, testifying to the emergence of this pivotal historical event as a universal frame of reference. In this new, globalized context, how is the Holocaust represented and taught? How do teachers handle this excessively complex and emotionally loaded subject in fast-changing multicultural European societies still haunted by the crimes perpetrated by the Nazis and their collaborators? Why and how is it taught in other areas of the world that have only little if any connection with the history of the Jewish people? Holocaust Education in a Global Context will explore these questions."--page 10.

Author : Leo P. Brophy,George J. B. Fisher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Chemical warfare
ISBN : UOM:39015060541524

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The Chemical Warfare Service by Leo P. Brophy,George J. B. Fisher Pdf

Author : Bretislav Friedrich,Dieter Hoffmann,Jürgen Renn,Florian Schmaltz,Martin Wolf
Publisher : Springer
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319516646

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One Hundred Years of Chemical Warfare: Research, Deployment, Consequences by Bretislav Friedrich,Dieter Hoffmann,Jürgen Renn,Florian Schmaltz,Martin Wolf Pdf

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. On April 22, 1915, the German military released 150 tons of chlorine gas at Ypres, Belgium. Carried by a long-awaited wind, the chlorine cloud passed within a few minutes through the British and French trenches, leaving behind at least 1,000 dead and 4,000 injured. This chemical attack, which amounted to the first use of a weapon of mass destruction, marks a turning point in world history. The preparation as well as the execution of the gas attack was orchestrated by Fritz Haber, the director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry in Berlin-Dahlem. During World War I, Haber transformed his research institute into a center for the development of chemical weapons (and of the means of protection against them). Bretislav Friedrich and Martin Wolf (Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, the successor institution of Haber’s institute) together with Dieter Hoffmann, Jürgen Renn, and Florian Schmaltz (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) organized an international symposium to commemorate the centenary of the infamous chemical attack. The symposium examined crucial facets of chemical warfare from the first research on and deployment of chemical weapons in WWI to the development and use of chemical warfare during the century hence. The focus was on scientific, ethical, legal, and political issues of chemical weapons research and deployment — including the issue of dual use — as well as the ongoing effort to control the possession of chemical weapons and to ultimately achieve their elimination. The volume consists of papers presented at the symposium and supplemented by additional articles that together cover key aspects of chemical warfare from 22 April 1915 until the summer of 2015.