Hitler's Scientists
Subtitle: science, war and the devil's pact
By: John Cornwell.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London, UK
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 535
ISBN-13: 9780670030750
Subjects: Scientists -- Germany; Science -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Understanding the Germans; title: Part one : Hitler's scientific inheritance.; title: Hitler the scientist; title: Germany the science mecca; title: Fritz Haber; title: The poison gas scientists; title: The "science" of racial hygiene; title: Eugenics and psychiatry; title: Part two : The new physics 1918-1933.; title: Physics after the First War; title: German science survives; title: Part three : Nazi enthusiasm, compliance and oppression 1933-1939.; title: The dismissals; title: Engineers and rocketeers; title: Medicine under Hitler; title: The cancer campaign; title: Geopolitik and Lebensraum; title: Nazi physics; title: Himmler's pseudo-science; title: Deutsche Mathematik; title: Part four : The science of destruction and defense 1933-1943.; title: Fission mania; title: World War II; title: Machines of war; title: Radar; title: Codes; title: Part five : The Nazi atomic bomb 1941-1945.; title: Copenhagen; title: Speer and Heisenberg; title: Haigerloch and Los Alamos; title: Part six : Science in hell 1942-1945.; title: Slave labor at Dora; title: The "science" of extermination and human experiment; title: The devil's chemists; title: Wonder weapons; title: Part seven : In Hitler's shadow.; title: Farm Hall; title: Heroes, villains and fellow travelers; title: Scientific plunder; title: Part eight : Science from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism.; title: Nuclear postures; title: Uniquely Nazi?; title: Science at war again