Hitler's Scientists
John Cornwell
By the first decade of the twentieth century, Germany was the Mecca of science and technology in the world. However, by the beginning of the First World War, Germany began to display some of the features that would blight the conduct of ideal science through the rest of the century.
After Hitler came into power in 1933, science and technology were quickly pressed into service by racist, xenophobic idealologies. From 1939 to the war's end, scientists working under military control began research on nuclear chain reaction with the prospect of arming Hitler with an atomic bomb. By 1943, few areas of German science, technology, and industry had not been experimentation and mass killing.
How German scientists behaved in the era spanning the beginning of the First War and the end of the Second raises many questions, disturbing and relevant to this day, about how scientist act under pressure of social and political circumstances and events. In pondering the moral and political predicament of the unregulated pursuit of scientific progress, Hitler's Scientist today prompts uncomfortable parallels with the past.
Duration - 21h 33m.
Author - John Cornwell.
Narrator - Simon Prebble.
Published Date - Wednesday, 18 January 2023.
Copyright - © 2024 John Cornwell ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
By the first decade of the twentieth century, Germany was the Mecca of science and technology in the world. However, by the beginning of the First World War, Germany began to display some of the features that would blight the conduct of ideal science through the rest of the century. After Hitler came into power in 1933, science and technology were quickly pressed into service by racist, xenophobic idealologies. From 1939 to the war's end, scientists working under military control began research on nuclear chain reaction with the prospect of arming Hitler with an atomic bomb. By 1943, few areas of German science, technology, and industry had not been experimentation and mass killing. How German scientists behaved in the era spanning the beginning of the First War and the end of the Second raises many questions, disturbing and relevant to this day, about how scientist act under pressure of social and political circumstances and events. In pondering the moral and political predicament of the unregulated pursuit of scientific progress, Hitler's Scientist today prompts uncomfortable parallels with the past. Duration - 21h 33m. Author - John Cornwell. Narrator - Simon Prebble. Published Date - Wednesday, 18 January 2023. Copyright - © 2024 John Cornwell ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:39
Chapter 1
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Chapter 2
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Chapter 3
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Chapter 4
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Chapter 5
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Chapter 6
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Chapter 7
Duration:00:19:06
Chapter 8
Duration:00:10:01
Chapter 9
Duration:00:16:57
Chapter 10
Duration:00:10:20
Chapter 11
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Chapter 12
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Chapter 13
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Chapter 14
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Chapter 15
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Chapter 16
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Chapter 17
Duration:00:23:11
Chapter 18
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Chapter 19
Duration:00:13:17
Chapter 20
Duration:00:14:18
Chapter 21
Duration:00:15:05
Chapter 22
Duration:00:14:14
Chapter 23
Duration:00:12:52
Chapter 24
Duration:00:08:14
Chapter 25
Duration:00:18:23
Chapter 26
Duration:00:07:11
Chapter 27
Duration:00:08:05
Chapter 28
Duration:00:16:52
Chapter 29
Duration:00:08:13
Chapter 30
Duration:00:06:28
Chapter 31
Duration:00:21:43
Chapter 32
Duration:00:16:16
Chapter 33
Duration:00:12:02
Ending Credits
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