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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…
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
International audience
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.
LA SHOAH NEL CONTESTO DEL VENTESIMO E VENTUNESIMO SECOLO
2014
"Je m’appelle Herschel Grynszpan", Neuilly-lès-Dijon, Editions du Murmure, 2017, 100 p.
2017
National audience; Aujourd'hui, rares ceux qui connaissent le nom d'Herschel Grynszpan. Pourtant, ce jeune juif polonais réfugié en France, fut l'auteur, le 7 novembre 1938 , d'un attentat contre l'ambassade du Troisième Reich à Paris qui servit de prétexte à la nuit de Cristal. Après un procès avorté et le déclenchement de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Herschel Grynszpan vécut la débâcle sur les routes de province, comme des millions de Français, avant de faire l'objet d'une traque menée par les nazis dans la France défaite de l'été 1940 : ils voyaient en lui la personnification du "complot juif international".
Una crisi annunciata. Aporie e incrinature dello Stato liberale di diritto
2012
Negli stessi anni in cui la giuspubblicistica tedesca metteva a punto in chiave monistica la nozione di Rechtsstaat, la società si andava risistemando secondo moduli organizzativi e statuti complessi, rinnovando il suo carico di contraddizioni, differenziazioni, spinte aggregative e tendenze autonomistiche. La rassicurante immagine di uno Stato-persona in grado di neutralizzare mediante il suo diritto le tendenze centrifughe e di dissolvere nella sua unità politica le particolarità frazionali strideva con l’articolazione complessa e pluralistica della società industriale, con una realtà che non era formata da individui astratti, eguali e indifferenziati, ma da soggetti concreti, diseguali e…