Hitler's Scientists: Science, War, and the Devil's Pact by John Cornwell

Hitler's Scientists: Science, War, and the Devil's Pact by John Cornwell is an excellent look at science and ethics within Nazi Germany. Cornwell deals with social sciences including how they relate to the Holocaust as well as hard sciences. Much of the narrative is taken up with a Nazi nuclear weapons program. By using recently declassified recorded conversations after the war Cornwell shows that the scientists did not understand the concepts involved instead of actively delaying the program like they said after the war.

The book contains notes and a bibliography.

Recommended!

Is available through Abebooks.


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