The mental aftermath : the mentality of German physicists 1945-1949 /
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| Author / Creator: | Hentschel, Klaus. |
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| Imprint: | Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007. |
| Description: | 205 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7529038 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Scientists in Germany seen from the outside
- 2. Tensions with the Allies
- 3. Russian phobia
- 4. Sense of isolation and grief over the fragmentation of Germany
- 5. Bitterness about the "export of scientists"
- 6. Scapegoating the 'Aryan physics' movement
- 7. Forgetting
- 8. Shame, listlessness and lethargy
- 9. Self-justification and the guilt issue
- 10. Self-pity, sentimentality and selfishness
- 11. 'Propaganda-free day-to-day' and political apathy
- 12. New awareness of a scientist's responsibility
- 13. Workaholism: "If we want to live, we must rebuild"
- 14. Side-lining of emigres and critics
- 15. Insensitivity in communicating with emigres
- 16. Distrust and obduracy among emigres
- 17. The mental aftermath
