Overview
- Offers new perspectives on the cooperation between German elite scientists and the Nazi regime
- Dismisses the assumption that pseudo science and "Arian physics" were typical for Nazi Germany
- Outlines the Nazi project of a "modern European economy" based on scientific achievements
Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 260)
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About this book
The book offers a history of the agricultural sciences in Nazi Germany. It analyzes scientific practice under the Nazi regime, Nazi agricultural policy and autarkic strategies as well as expansion policy in Eastern Europe. It also offers new insights into the Auschwitz concentration camp. It outlines the Nazi’s comprehensive nutritional and agricultural research program intended to prepare Germany for war by raising productivity through scientific means, researching the relation between nutrition and performance at the edge of starvation, and restructuring the agricultural economy of the continent. The book reveals the relation between science and power in Nazi Germany beyond the usual dichotomy that paints scientists in Nazi Germany either as victims of oppression or as sadistic beasts. It shows the involvement of a high ranking scientific elite in the Nazi regime of occupation and looting of cultural goods in the occupied eastern territories – largely for the sake of their own careers. The main audience the book addresses are students of history and the history of science, and anyone interested in the history of Nazi Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Plant Breeding and Agrarian Research in Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institutes 1933-1945
Book Subtitle: Calories, Caoutchouc, Careers
Authors: Susanne Heim
Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6718-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6717-4Published: 24 April 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7688-2Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-6718-1Published: 27 March 2008
Series ISSN: 0068-0346
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 235
Additional Information: Original German edition published by Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen, 2003
Topics: History of Science, Agricultural Economics, History, general, Agriculture, Plant Genetics and Genomics, Animal Physiology