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Scientists under Hitler: Politics and the Physics Community in the Third Reich Kindle Edition

by Alan D. Beyerchen (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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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.
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    Yale University Press
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    July 31, 2018
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07G4F925V
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Yale University Press (July 31, 2018)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 31, 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3.9 MB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 420 pages
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  • Tammy D. Marcoux
    5.0 out of 5 stars My cousin
    Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2016
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    Alan Beyerchen is my cousin and I am very happy with my purchase! He is a talented and intelligent man.
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  • Ulfilas
    5.0 out of 5 stars From Aryan Physics to the German Atomic Bomb Project
    Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2010
    This book examines the little know world of the Nazi Physics. Although many of the greats of German physics left the country in 1933, quite a few remained behind to work for the Nazis. The German Noble Laureate Stark even attempted to define so-called "Arian Physics". In the end the German nuclear research effort was not even close to matching the accomplishments of the effort in America. This lack of progress was especially evident from the reaction of German physicists under house arrest in England when hearing of the bombing of Hiroshima. In fact, these German physicist were hardly able to imagine that such a bomb was even possible.
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  • Juergen Schwab
    5.0 out of 5 stars Der Zusammenbruch eines Ideals
    Reviewed in Germany on November 10, 2013
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    Anhand einer Reihe von Einzelschicksalen wie Max Born, Philipp Lenard, Johannes Stark u.a. beschreibt Beyerchen, wie auf der einen Seite Wissenschaftler systematisch verdrängt wurden, wie andere sich "durchmogeln" konnten und wieder andere durch rechte Gesinnung Erfolg hatten, unabhängig von ihrer tatsächlichen wissenschaftlichen Qualifikation. Während die Gründe des Rückzugs Albert Einsteins und anderer nichtarischer Wissenschaftler hinlänglich beschrieben wurden, stehen hier Mitläufer, Opportunisten und glühende Verehrer des Nationalsozialismus im Mittelpunkt. Die Motive waren unterschiedlich: von der schroffen Ablehnung der modernen Physik bei Lenard oder Stark bis zum Versuch, das Ideal einer unpolitischen Wissenschaft in einer Zeit der totalen Politisierung der Gesellschaft aufrecht zu erhalten. Viele Wisenschaflter, die es zuvor gewohnt waren, als Autoritäten bei der politischen Elite Gehör zu finden, sahen sich eines besseren belehrt: nicht mehr wissenschafltiche Fakten und Methode zählte, sondern Gesinnung. Auf der anderen Seite erkannte die politische Führung bald, dass sie auf undogmatische Wissenschaftler angewiesen war und ließ sie gewähren, selbst wenn diese sich mit Relativitäts- und Quantentheorie befassten.

    Das Buch macht einerseits deutlich, dass Wissenschaft in einem ideologischen Raum auf Sicht kaum gedeihen kann, andererseits sich Wissenschaftler nicht der Illusion hingeben sollten, ihre Arbeit sei per se "unpolitisch".
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