Intellectual Collaboration with the Third Reich: Treason or Reason?

by Maria Björkman (Editor), Patrik Lundell (Editor), Sven Widmalm (Editor)

Overview

The book investigates the rather neglected "intellectual" collaboration between National Socialist Germany and other countries, including views on knowledge and politics among "pro-German" intellectuals, using a comparative approach. These moves were shaped by the Nazi system, which viewed scientific and cultural exchange as part and parcel of their cultural propaganda and policy. Positive views of the Hitler regime among intellectuals of all sorts were indicative of a broader discontent with democracy that, among other things, represented an alternative approach to modernization which was not limited to the German heartlands.

This book draws together international experts in an analysis of right-wing Europe under Hitler; a study which has gained new resonance amidst the wave of European nationalism in the twenty-first century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367786359
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/31/2021
Series:	Routledge Studies in Second World War History
Pages:	286
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Maria Björkman is researcher at the Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Patrik Lundell is professor of history at Örebro University, Sweden.

Sven Widmalm is professor of history of science and ideas at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Table of Contents

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Collaboration and normalization

Maria Björkman, Patrik Lundell & Sven Widmalm

"Zwischenvölkisches Verstehen": Theory and practice of knowledge transfer between 1933 and 1945

Andrea Albrecht, Lutz Danneberg and Alexandra Skowronski

The art of Nazi international networking: The visual arts in the rhetoric and reality of Hitler’s European New Order

Benjamin Martin

Treason? What treason? German-foreign friendship societies and transnational relations between right-wing intellectuals during the Nazi period

Johannes Dafinger

Some remarks on relations between Germany and Japan in the field of research 1933‒1945

Hans-Joachim Bieber

Between competition, co-operation and collaboration: The International Committee of Historical Sciences, the International Historical Congresses and the German historiography, 1933–1945

Matthias Berg

The Academy of Sciences of Lisbon between science, international politics, and neutrality (1932–1945)

Fernando Clara

Sympathy for the Devil? American support for German sciences after 1933

Helke Rausch

Hektor Ammann’s völkisch idea of medieval economics and the place of Switzerland in Nazi-dominated Europe

Fabian Link

An agent of indirect propaganda: Normalizing Nazi Germany in the Swedish medical journal Svenska Läkartidningen 1933–1945

Annika Berg

Transnational encounters in science: Knowledge exchanges and ideological entanglements between Portugal and Nazi Germany (1933–1945)

Cláudia Ninhos

German foreign cultural policy and higher education in Brazil (1933–1942)

André Felipe Cândido da Silva

The politics of "neutral" science: Swiss geneticists and their relations with Nazi Germany

Pascal Germann

Contributing to the cultural "New Order": How German intellectuals attributed a prominent place for the Spanish nation

Marició Janué I Miret

Copenhagen Revisited

Mark Walker

On the structural conditions for scientific amorality

Susanne Heim

Index