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Surviving the Swastika - Scientific Research in Nazi Germany (Hardcover)
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Surviving the Swastika - Scientific Research in Nazi Germany (Hardcover)
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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, a semi-private umbrella organization
which founded and maintained institutes for basic scientific
research. Home to over twenty Nobel-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-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.
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