Nazi Science Myth, Truth, and the German Atomic Bomb
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NAZI SCIENCE MYTH, TRUTH, AND THE GERMAN ATOMIC BOMB MARK WALKER
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© 1995 Mark Walker Originally published by Plenum Press, New York in 1995 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1995 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher
Acknowledgments
I am very grateful to the many people who helped me with this project. Preliminary versions of Chapters 8, 9, and 10 appeared in Vierteljahrshefte fUr Zeitgeschichte (volumes 38 (1990),45-74 and 41 (1993), 519-42), and Chapters 6 and 7, in Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences (volume 22 (1992), 339-89). I am indebted to John L. Heilbron and the editorial board of the Vierteljahrshefte for their support and editorial advice. Many of my colleagues read all or part of this book and gave me their helpful criticism: Philippe Burrinh, David DeVorkin, Michael Eckert, Paul Forman, Dieter Hoffmann, Ian Kershaw, Andreas Kleinert, Michael Neufeld, Ray Stokes, Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker, Andreas Wirsching, and my Union College colleagues Steve Berk, Faye Dudden, Erik Hansen, and Teresa Meade. Finally, Linda Greenspan Regan, my editor at Plenum Press, greatly improved the manuscript through her insightful comments and suggestions. This book could not have been written without the generous help of many archives and archivists: the Academy Archives of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, the Berlin Document
Acknowledgments
Center, the Archives of the Humboldt University, the Archives of the Max Planck Society, and the State Pruss ian Library in Berlin; the State Archives in Hamburg; the Federal Archives in Koblenz and Potsdam; the German Museum, the Institute for Contemporary History, and the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics in Munich; and the National Archives and Records Services in Washington, D.C. Special thanks go to Helmut Drubba for sending me a great deal of valuable information. I received financial support for my research from the Alexander Humboldt Foundation, the Berlin Program of the Social Science Research Council, and Union College. Ulrich Albrecht, Andreas Heinemann-Griider, and the Free University welcomed me as a guest in Berlin, as did Baudouin Jurdant, Josiane OlffNathan, and the rest of GERSULP at the University of Strasbourg. Perhaps most important is the support I have always received from the History Department at Union College. My colleague Monika Renneberg and I have recently edited a collection of essays on science, technology, and National Socialism.! I cannot improve on the dedication we used in that book, so I would like to repeat it here.
This book is dedicated to all those critical voi
