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  • The Mental Aftermathby Klaus Hentschel

    Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 60.00

    The perplexing behaviour of even morally acclaimed German physicists toward the Allied occupiers after WWII is examined. Their public and private statements are examined and may shed light on the prickly issue of the proper comportment of victor nations. - ;Few scientific communities have been more thoroughly studied than 20th-century German physicists. Yet their behaviour and patterns of thinking immediately after the war remains puzzling. During the first five post war years they suspended their internecine battles and a strange solidarity emerged. Former enemies were suddenly willing to exonerate each other blindly and even morally upright physicists began to write tirades against the 'denazification mischief' or the 'export... more...

  • Physiker zwischen Autonomie und Anpassungby Dieter Hoffmann; Mark Walker

    Wiley-VCH 2008; US$ 140.00

    Deutschland war im ersten Drittel des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts ein Weltzentrum physikalischer Forschung, insbesondere auf dem Gebiet der Theoretischen Physik. Zum institutionellen Netzwerk dieser Hochkultur der Physik gehörte die Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG), eine der ältesten und einflussreichsten wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaften in Deutschland. Die Machtübernahme der Nationalsozialisten im Januar 1933 bedeutete auch für die Physik einen tiefen Einschnitt. Politische Einflussnahme, die Vertreibung jüdischer Gelehrter und die verstärkt anwendungsbezogene und militärtechnische Ausrichtung der Forschung veränderten die Rahmenbedingungen physikalischer Forschung grundlegend und bedeuteten... more...

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