The Mentality of German Physicists 1945-1949
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | 2007 | ISBN: 0199205663 | PDF | 216 pages | 12.6 MB
Few scientific communities have been more thoroughly studied than 20th-century German physicists. Yet their behaviour and patterns of thinking immediately after the war remains puzzling. During the first five post war years they suspended their internecine battles and a strange solidarity emerged. Former enemies were suddenly willing to exonerate each other blindly and even morally upright physicists began to write tirades against the 'denazification mischief' or the 'export of scientists'.