Forced Migration and Scientific Change
Subtitle: Emigré German-Speaking Scientists and Scholars after 1933 (Publications of the German Historical Institute)
Contributors: Mitchell G. Ash (Editor); Alfons Söllner (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 30, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780521522786
Subjects: European history: from c 1900 -; History of science; Immigration & emigration; Impact of science & technology on society; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Social History; History: American; History; History - General History; Europe; Germany; Holocaust; Modern - 20th Century; Germans--United States--Intellectual life; History / Europe / General; History / Holocaust; History-Modern - 20th Century; Social Science-Social History
First sentence: Many emigration specialists maintain that the loss of approximately 2,000 scientists by Germany between 1933 and 1945 completely shattered that country's basis for scientific research.