S. Heim
Plant Breeding and Agrarian Research in Kaiser-WilhelmInstitutes 1933-1945
Calories, Caoutchouc, Careers
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, Vol. 260
▶ 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
2008, X, 222 p.
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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.
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