The Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism

Titel: The Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism / [ed. by] Susanne Heim ; Carola Sachse ; Mark Walker
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Ausgabe: 1. publ.
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009
Umfang: XXIV, 477 Seiten : Diagramme ; 24 cm
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 9780521879064
  • Tables
  • p. ix
  • Illustrations
  • p. xi
  • Editors
  • p. xiii
  • Contributors
  • p. xv
  • Abbreviations
  • p. xvii
  • Archives
  • p. xxi
  • 1
  • The Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism
  • p. 1
  • Section I
  • Research and Personnel Policies
  • 2
  • A Success Story? Highlighting the History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society's General Administration in the Third Reich
  • p. 19
  • 3
  • "No Time to Debate and Ask Questions" - Forced Labor for Science in the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, 1939-1945
  • p. 47
  • 4
  • Adolf Butenandt between Science and Politics: From the Weimar Republic to the Federal Republic of Germany
  • p. 74
  • Section II
  • Racial Research
  • 5
  • Brain Research and the Murder of the Sick: The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research, 1937-1945
  • p. 99
  • 6
  • Two Hundred Blood Samples from Auschwitz: A Nobel Laureate and the Link to Auschwitz
  • p. 120
  • 7
  • Racial Purity, Stable Genes, and Sex Difference: Gender in the Making of Genetic Concepts by Richard Goldschmidt and Fritz Lenz, 1916 to 1936
  • p. 145
  • Section III
  • Eastern Research, Living Space, Breeding Research
  • 8
  • Kog-Sagyz - A Vital War Reserve
  • p. 173
  • 9
  • Raw and Advanced Materials for an Autarkic Germany: Textile Research in the Kaiser Wilhelm Society
  • p. 200
  • 10
  • Political Networking and Scientific Modernization: Botanical Research at the KWI for Biology and Its Place in National Socialist Science Policy
  • p. 227
  • Section IV
  • Military Research
  • 11
  • Ideology Armaments, and Resources: The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Metal Research and the "German Metals," 1933-1945
  • p. 253
  • 12
  • Calculation, Measurement, and Leadership: War Research at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Fluid Dynamics, 1937-1945
  • p. 283
  • 13
  • Chemical Weapons Research in National Socialism: The Collaboration of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes with the Military and Industry
  • p. 312
  • 14
  • Nuclear Weapons and Reactor Research at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics
  • p. 339
  • Section V
  • The Postwar "Politics of the Past"
  • 15
  • "Whitewash Culture": How the Kaiser Wilhelm/Max Planck Society Dealt with the Nazi Past
  • p. 373
  • 16
  • The Predecessor: The Uneasy Rapprochement between Carl Neuberg and Adolf Butenandt after 1945
  • p. 400
  • Bibliography
  • p. 419
  • Index
  • p. 469