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The Kaiser Wilhelm Society under national socialism

Title
The Kaiser Wilhelm Society under national socialism / [edited by] Susanne Heim, Carola Sachse, Mark Walker.
Publication
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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TextUse in library JFE 09-3843Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Heim, Susanne, 1955-
  • Sachse, Carola, 1951-
  • Walker, Mark, 1959-
Description
xxiv, 477 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
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  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-467) and index.
Contents
The Kaiser Wilhelm Society under national socialism / Susane Heim, Carola Sachse, and Mark Walker -- A success story? highlighting the history of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society's general administration in the Third Reich / Rudiger Hachtmann -- "No time to debate and ask questions"-forced labor for science in the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, 1939-1945 / Bernhard Strebel and Jens-Christian Wagner -- Adolf Butenandt between science and politics: from the Weimar republic to the federal republic of Germany / Wolfgang Schieder -- Brain research and the murder of the sick: the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research, 1937-1945 / Hans-Walter Schmuhl -- Two hundred blood samples from Auschwitz: a nobel laureate and the link to Auschwitz / Achim Trunk -- Racial purity, stable genes, and sex differences: gender in the making of genetic concepts by Richard Goldschmidt and Fritz Lenz, 1916-1936 / Helga Satzinger -- Kog-Sagyz--a vital war reserve / Susanne Heim -- Raw and advanced materials for an autarkic Germany: textile research in the Kaiser Wilhelm Society / Gunther Luxbacher -- Political networking and scientific modernization: botanical research at the KWI for biology and its place / Bernd Gausemeier -- Ideology armaments, and resources: the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Metal Research and the "German Metals," 1933-1945 / Helmut Maier -- Calculation, measurement, and leadership: war research at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Fluid Dynamics, 1937-1945 / Moritz Epple -- Chemical weapons research in national socialism: the collaboration of the Kaiser Wilhelm institutes with the military and industry / Florian Schmaltz -- Nuclear weapons and reactor research at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics / Mark Walker -- "Whitewash culture": how the Kaiser Wilhelm/Max Planck Society dealt with the Nazi past / Carola Sachse -- The predecessor: the uneasy rapprochement between Carl Neuberg and Adolf Butenandt after 1945 / Michael Shuring.
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JFE 09-3843
ISBN
  • 9780521879064
  • 052187906X
LCCN
2008054455
OCLC
335535728
Title
The Kaiser Wilhelm Society under national socialism / [edited by] Susanne Heim, Carola Sachse, Mark Walker.
Imprint
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-467) and index.
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Heim, Susanne, 1955-
Sachse, Carola, 1951-
Walker, Mark, 1959-
Research Call Number
JFE 09-3843
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