Hitler's Scientists : science, war and the devil's pact /
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| Author / Creator: | Cornwell, John, 1940- |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Viking, 2003. |
| Description: | xiv, 535 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4966400 |
Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. 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
- Pt. 2. The New Physics 1918-1933
- 7. Physics after the First War
- 8. German Science Survives
- Pt. 3. 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
- Pt. 4. The Science of Destruction and Defence 1933-1943
- 17. Fission Mania
- 18. World War II
- 19. Machines of War
- 20. Radar
- 21. Codes
- Pt. 5. The Nazi Atomic Bomb 1941-1945
- 22. Copenhagen
- 23. Speer and Heisenberg
- 24. Haigerloch and Los Alamos
- Pt. 6. 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
- Pt. 7. In Hitler's Shadow
- 29. Farm Hall
- 30. Heroes, Villains and Fellow Travellers
- 31. Scientific Plunder
- Pt. 8. Science from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism
- 32. Nuclear Postures
- 33. Uniquely Nazi?
- 34. Science at War Again.
