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Deichmann, Ute (2020). SCIENCE AND POLITICAL IDEOLOGY The example of Nazi Germany. Metode Sci. Stud. J. (10). S. 129 - 138. VALENCIA: UNIV VALENCIA, BOTANICAL GARDEN UV. ISSN 2174-9221

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Abstract

Although in their basic framework Nazi anti-Semitic and racist ideology and policies were not grounded in science, scientists not only supported them in various ways, but also took advantage of them, for example by using the new possibilities of unethical experimentation in humans that these ideologies provided. Scientists' complicity with Nazi ideology and politics does, however, not mean that all sciences in Nazi Germany were ideologically tainted. I argue, rather, that despite the fact that some areas of science continued at high levels, science in Nazi Germany was most negatively affected not by the imposition of Nazi ideology on the conduct of science but by the enactment of legal measures that ensured the expulsion of Jewish scientists. The anti-Semitism of young faculty and students was particularly virulent. Moreover, I show that scientists supported Nazi ideologies and policies not only through so-called reductionist science such as eugenics and race-hygiene, but also by promoting organicist and holistic ideologies of the racial state.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Deichmann, Ute UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-349529
DOI:	10.7203/metode.10.13657
Journal or Publication Title:	Metode Sci. Stud. J.
Number:	10
Page Range:	S. 129 - 138
Date:	2020
Publisher:	UNIV VALENCIA, BOTANICAL GARDEN UV
Place of Publication:	VALENCIA
ISSN:	2174-9221
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language History & Philosophy Of Science Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/34952