Surviving the Swastika

Bok av Kristie Macrakis
In the first book on the subject, Kristie Macrakis examines scientific research under National Socialism through the prism of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. Based on a trove of previously untapped archival sources in the former East and West Germany, printed material, and numerous interviews with scientists and administrators, this book provides a rich account of science under a totalitarian regime previously seen as a monolithic block, but here revealed as a montage of rival power blocks which allowed the survival of scientific research at a unique institution.