Research Catalog

Title

Science, technology, and national socialism / edited by Monika Renneberg and Mark Walker.

Publication

Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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Additional Authors

• Renneberg, Monika.
• Walker, Mark, 1959-

Description

xix, 422 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Engineering > Germany > History
• Fascism > Germany > History
• National socialism and science > History
• Science > Germany > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-413) and index.

Contents

• Scientists, engineers and National Socialism / Monika Renneberg and Mark Walker -- Keinerlei Untergang : German armaments engineers during the Second World War and in the service of the victorious powers / Andreas Heinemann-Grüder -- The guided missile and the Third Reich : Peenemünde and the forging of a technological revolution / Michael J. Neufeld -- Self-mobilization or resistance? Aeronautical research and National Socialism / Helmuth Trischler -- Military technology and National Socialist ideology / Ulrich Albrecht -- 'Area research' and 'spatial planning' from the Weimar Republic to the German Federal Republic : creating a society with a spatial order under National Socialism / Mechtild Rössler -- The ideological origins of institutes at the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft in National Socialist Germany / Kristie Macrakis --Biological research at universities and Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes in Nazi Germany / Ute Deichmann and Benno Müller-Hill -- Pedagogy, professionalism and politics : biology instruction during the Third Reich / Sheila Faith Weiss.
• (cont.) The whole and the community : scientific and political reasoning in the holistic psychology of Felix Krueger / Ulfried Geuter -- Pascual Jordan : quantum mechanics, psychology, National Socialism / M. Norton Wise -- The ideology of early particle accelerators : an association between knowledge and power / Maria Osietzki -- The 'Minerva' project. The accelerator laboratory at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute/Max Planck Institute of Chemistry : continuity in fundamental research / Burghard Weiss -- The social system of mathematics and National Socialism : a survey -- Irresponsible purity : the political and moral structure of mathematical sciences in the National Socialist State / Herbert Mehrtens -- The problem of anti-Fascist resistance of 'apolitical' German scholars / Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze.

Call Number

JSE 94-2118

ISBN

052140374X (hardback)

LCCN

92041633 //r94

OCLC

27070071

Title

Science, technology, and national socialism / edited by Monika Renneberg and Mark Walker.

Imprint

Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-413) and index.

Added Author

Renneberg, Monika.

Walker, Mark, 1959-

Research Call Number

JSE 94-2118