Автор: John Cornwell Название: Hitler's Scientists: Science, War, and the Devil's Pact Издательство: Penguin Books Год: 2004 ISBN: 978-0142004807 Язык: English Формат: pdf, epub Размер: 21 mb Страниц: 576
A shocking account of Nazi science, and a compelling look at the the dramatic rise of German science in the nineteenth century, its preeminence in the early twentieth, and the frightening developments that led to its collapse in 1945, this is the compelling story of German scientists under Hitler’s regime.
Weaving the history of science and technology with the fortunes of war and the stories of men and women whose discoveries brought both benefits and destruction to the world, Hitler's Scientists raises questions that are still urgent today. As science becomes embroiled in new generations of weapons of mass destruction and the war against terrorism, as advances in biotechnology outstrip traditional ethics, this powerful account of Nazi science forms a crucial commentary on the ethical role of science.
Acknowledgements Introduction: Understanding the Germans
PART ONE: Hitler’s Scientific Inheritance
1. Hitler the Scientist 2. Germany the Science Mecca 3. Fritz Haber 4. The Poison Gas Scientists 5. The ‘Science’ of Racial Hygiene 6. Eugenics and Psychiatry
PART TWO: The New Physics 1918-1933
7. Physics after the First War 8. German Science Survives
PART THREE: Nazi Enthusiasm, Compliance and Oppression 1933-1939
9. The Dismissals 10. Engineers and Rocketeers 11. Medicine under Hitler 12. The Cancer Campaign 13. Geopolitik and Lebensraum 14. Nazi Physics 15. Himmler’s Pseudo-science 16. Deutsche Mathematik
PART FOUR: The Science of Destruction and Defence 1933-1943
17. Fission Mania 18. World War II 19. Machines of War 20. Radar 21. Codes
PART FIVE: The Nazi Atomic Bomb 1941-1945
22. Copenhagen 23. Speer and Heisenberg 24. Haigerloch and Los Alamos
PART SIX: Science in Hell 1942-1945
25. Slave Labour at Dora 26. The ‘Science’ of Extermination and Human Experiment 27. The Devil’s Chemists 28. Wonder Weapons
PART SEVEN: In Hitler’s Shadow
29. Farm Hall 30. Heroes, Villains and Fellow Travellers 31. Scientific Plunder
PART EIGHT: Science from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism
32. Nuclear Postures 33. Uniquely Nazi? 34. Science at War Again
