Surviving the Swastika

Surviving the Swastika
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 311
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ISBN-10 : 9780195070101
ISBN-13 : 0195070100
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Book Synopsis Surviving the Swastika by : Kristie Macrakis

Download or read book Surviving the Swastika written by Kristie Macrakis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft in the Nazi period. Ch. 3 (p. 51-72), "From Accommodation to Passive Opposition, 1933-35," discusses the dismissal of Jews from the various institutes. Max Planck tried to protect his Jewish colleagues from the Nazi authorities, but in vain. The only act of resistance undertaken by the scientists was the Fritz Haber Memorial Ceremony in 1935 (Haber, a Jewish scientist, died in Switzerland in 1934); the Nazis reluctantly allowed it to be held.


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