Search results for "Nazism"
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Conrad and Censorship in Poland
2012
This essay explores the ways in which Conrad's life and letters were inextricably connected with the censorship imposed by three political systems: Tsarist autocracy, Nazi totalitarianism, and Communism. Conrad's oeuvre was itself a “victim” of two regimes of totalitarian censorship and political persecution. In occupied Poland between 1939 and 1945, his writing became a spiritual guide for the young generation, helping them to survive the horrors of the war and occupation. After the war, Conrad was banned by the Polish Communists, and supposedly forgotten. Totalitarian systems, it is argued, regard Conrad's works as dangerous and subversive because of their moral message of respect for hum…
Persecution and Patronage: Oscar Buneman’s years in Britain
2016
The German student Oscar Bunemann, in trouble with the Nazi authorities in the mid-1930s, chose to emigrate to Britain and pursue a PhD there. After emigration, his surname appears as Buneman. On the verge of completing his degree in 1940, he was detained as an enemy alien and spent almost a year in internment. Upon release, he found work as an atomic scientist in England, and went on to lead a post-war career as a pioneering plasma physicist in the USA.We study forced migration of European scientists before and during the Second World War, and scientific patronage in the host countries. Buneman’s case is interesting from several points of view. Being a non-Jewish, non-communist, anti-Nazi …
Responding to the Nazi Crimes: The British Press and the Nuremberg Trial
2011
Ever since the news of the liberated concentration camps had filled the pages of British newspapers, the majority attitude of the press was that Nazi criminality, including the Final Solution, had to be recorded and remembered. Throughout the summer of 1945, the victorious Allies were wrestling with the question of how the unbelievable scenes, exposed by advancing Allied armies who liberated concentration camps, and the criminality of the Nazi regime that had made them possible, should be investigated.
Science and ideology: The case of physics in Nazi Germany
2016
Science is not «above» politics and ethics: it is intrinsically political, and constantly raises ethical dilemmas. The consequences of evading such issues were made particularly clear in the actions of scientists working in Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 40s. The accusation in 2006 that Dutch physicist Peter Debye was an opportunist who colluded with the Nazis reopened the debate about the conduct of physicists at that time. Here I consider what those events can tell us about the relationship of science and politics today. I argue that an insistence that science is an abstract, apolitical inquiry into nature is a myth that can leave it morally compromised and vulnerable to political manipula…
Mathematical Publishing in the Third Reich: Springer-Verlag and the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung
2000
Stiss. He was known to take interest in DMV affairs and they believed his views coincided with those current at the DMV board, in other words, with their own. Stiss had been a pupil of Ludwig Bieberbach (1886-1982), who in the Third Reich propagated an anti-Semitic, racial theory of Deutsche Mathematik and led a group of National Socialist mathematicians strongly opposed to the DMV. The DMV board hoped that Stiss might be able to reconcile his former teacher with the DMV, or at least safeguard it and its politics against the threat of political attack from Bieberbach's faction. In addition, Stiss had recently become a member o f the Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei…
Bemerkungen zu K.-D. Thomann: „100 Jahre Zeitschrift für Orthopädie“
2008
The historical review of 100 years of the Zeitschrift fur Orthopadie could create the impression that the Nazi era did not have any significant impact on orthopedics in Germany. In this commentary it is shown that the Prevention of Heredopathic Offspring Act of 1933 resulted in an uncritical overemphasis on hereditary factors. This decisively influenced concepts of, research into and therapy for hip dislocation, both in Germany and other countries.
Strange bedfellows: the Bundestag’s free vote on pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) reveals how Germany’s restrictive bioethics legislation is …
2015
Germany’s bioethical legislation presents a puzzle: given structural factors, the country should be at the forefront of reproductive medicine, but its embryology regime remains one of the strictest in Western Europe. Past research has linked this fact to an unusual coalition of Christian and New Left groups, which both draw a connection from modern embryology to eugenics under the Nazis. In this article, the workings of this alleged alliance are demonstrated at the micro-level for the first time. The behaviour of individual MPs in a crucial free vote on pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is modelled using data on their political, sectoral and religious affiliations. Identifying as a …
Compte rendu de : Johann Chapoutot, Libres d’obéir. Le management, du nazisme à aujourd’hui, Paris, Gallimard, 2020, 176 p.
2020
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Hitler A Bayreuth. Storia di un'amicizia (1923-1940)
2013
Il saggio si sofferma sulle vite parallele di Winifred Majorie Williams (moglie di Sigfried Wagner e dopo la sua morte "Signora di Bayreuth") e Adolf Hitler, grande ammiratore dell'opera wagneriana e "amico" di famiglia della famiglia Wagner a partire dalla fine degli anni Venti. Il testo ripercorre le tappe del rapporto personale fra Winifred Wagner e Adolf Hitler, rievocando al tempo stesso alcuni episodi della biografia hitleriana legati al Festival di Bayreuth.