Surviving the Swastika: Scientific Research in Nazi Germany

by Kristie Macrakis

Surviving the Swastika examines scientific research under National Socialism through the prism of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of the Sciences, a semi-private umbrella organization which founded and maintained institutes for basic scientific research. Home to over twenty Nobel-prize winning scientists, the prestigious forerunner of the Max Planck Society was at the forefront of scientific advance in the first half of the twentieth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195070100
• ISBN13: 9780195070101
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"