Scientific Information in Wartime: The Allied-German Rivalry, 1939-1945

Scientific Information in Wartime: The Allied-German Rivalry, 1939-1945

by Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN-10:
0313290628
ISBN-13:
9780313290626
Pub. Date:
06/14/1994
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN-10:
0313290628
ISBN-13:
9780313290626
Pub. Date:
06/14/1994
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
Scientific Information in Wartime: The Allied-German Rivalry, 1939-1945

Scientific Information in Wartime: The Allied-German Rivalry, 1939-1945

by Bloomsbury Academic

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Overview

This book describes how the growing awareness of the strategic importance of science in the 1930s caused the Allied and German leadership to build scientific information supply systems that survived into the postwar era. Using archival materials from five countries, Richards traces the successes and failures of these early scientific intelligence agencies. She focuses on the OSS unit supplying copy for the US government's wartime program to reprint current German scientific jourbanals. She describes as well the methods used by the OSS to spirit individual jourbanal issues from inside the Reich to microfilm squads on Germany's periphery, and gives special attention to the Allied quest for information about the mythical German atomic bomb. Richards also describes the supply system set up by the Nazi government, and how its increasing desperation for Allied scientific news led in the last year of the war to a submarine landing of Abwehr agents on the U.S. coast to microfilm periodicals at the New York Public Library. The final chapter of her book looks at how the wartime experience with scientific information influenced postwar patterns of scientific documentation and librarianship in each country.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780313290626
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 06/14/1994
Series: Contributions in Military Studies , #15
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.56(d)
Lexile: 1780L (what's this?)

About the Author

PAMELA SPENCE RICHARDS is Professor of Library and Information Studies at Rutgers University. The author of four books, she has had many articles published in German and English jourbanals and has lectured widely in both countries.

Table of Contents

Preface
The Internationalization of Science and Scientific Information in the Twentieth Century
National Government Support for Scientific Information in Great Britain and the United States before World War II
National Government Support for Scientific Information in Germany before World War II
The Allied Wartime Supply System for Enemy Scientific Information
Germany's Wartime Supply System for Enemy Scientific Information
Postwar Consequences
Appendix A: List of Jourbanals Available in Reprint from the Office of Alien Property Custodian
Appendix B: Title Page, Prefatory Material and First Contents Page of the First Issue of the Referatenblatt, Issued Collaboratively by the Information Centers of the Welt-Wirtschaftlichen Institut in Hamburg and the Technologische Hochscule in Berin, 1942
References
Index

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