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Physics and National Socialism
1 Aim and General Description of the Anthology The purpose of this anthology is to introduce the English speaking public to the wide spectrum of texts authored predominently by physicists portraying the ac tual and perceived role of physics in the Nazi state. Up to now no broad and well balanced documentation of German physics during this time has been available in English, despite the significant role physics has played both politically (e. g. , in weaponry planning) and ideologically (e. g. , in the controversy over the value of theoretical ('Jewish') vs. experimental ('Aryan') physics), and even though prominent figures like the scientist-philosopher and emigre Albert Einstein and the con...
The Griffin: The Greatest Untold Espionage Story of World War II
“The Griffin” was Paul Rosbaud’s code name as a spy. Rosbaud (1896-1963) was a distinguished science editor for the German publishing firm Springer Verlag, a close friend of leading physicists who worked on nuclear fission, and, apparently, a pillar of Nazi society. But he was also Britain’s most valuable spy in Germany during World War II. Rosbaud supplied the British with the “Oslo Report” which disclosed, early in the war, details about Germany’s military technology, including the rockets developed at Peenemünde that would devastate London. It was from Rosbaud that the British first learned of the German intent to make the atomic bomb. When they failed to grasp the principl...
The Griffin
The greatest untold espionage story of World War II is revealed in this account of British spy Paul Rosebaud's discovery of high-tech Nazi information. 16 page black-and-white photographic insert.
Umkämpfte Identitäten
Die Umbrüche des 20. Jahrhunderts forderten die Göttinger Akademie heraus. Die Grenzen des verbindenden wissenschaftlichen Ethos traten dabei klar hervor. Als eine der ältesten deutschen Akademien musste sich die Göttinger Gelehrtengesellschaft seit Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts nicht nur einer sich neu formierenden Forschungslandschaft stellen. Zwischen Erstem Weltkrieg und bundesrepublikanischer Nachkriegsgesellschaft änderten sich auch die politischen Rahmbedingungen. Désirée Schauz geht der Frage nach, wie sich die Akademie und ihre Mitglieder angesichts dieser Umbrüche positionierten. Inmitten alter und neuer Wissenschaftsorganisationen war das Göttinger Netzwerk zugleich von Kon...
