Hitler's Scientists
Subtitle: Science, War, and the Devil's Pact
Publisher: Viking Adult
Published: October 9, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780670030750
Subjects: History: World; Science and state; History; Germany - History - Third Reich (1933-1945); History Of Science; Science; Military - World War II; Europe - Germany; History / General; General; World War, 1939-1945; 20th century; Germany
First sentence: I have an early impression of my father holding me up to glimpse a black growling angel trailing fire in the moonlit sky across London: it was a VI - a long-range pilotless 'pulse-jet' flying bomb, what today we would call a cruise missile.
Description: In Hitler's Scientists, British historian John Cornwell explores German scientific genius in the first half of the twentieth century and shows how Germany's early lead in the new physics led to the discovery of atomic fission, which in turn led the way to the atom bomb, and how the ideas of Darwinism were hijacked to create the lethal doctrine of racial cleansing.