Surviving the Swastika: Scientific Research in Nazi Germany

Surviving the Swastika: Scientific Research in Nazi Germany
ISBN-10
0195070100
ISBN-13
9780195070101
Category
Germany
Pages
280
Language
English
Published
1993
Publisher
Oxford University Press on Demand
Author
Kristie Macrakis

Description

A study of the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft in the Nazi period. Ch. 3 (p. 51-72), "From Accommodation to Passive Opposition, 1933-35," discusses the dismissal of Jews from the various institutes. Max Planck tried to protect his Jewish colleagues from the Nazi authorities, but in vain. The only act of resistance undertaken by the scientists was the Fritz Haber Memorial Ceremony in 1935 (Haber, a Jewish scientist, died in Switzerland in 1934); the Nazis reluctantly allowed it to be held.

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