TY - BOOK ID - 217038 TI - Plant breeding and agrarian research in Kaiser-Wilhelm-institutes 1933-1945 : calories, caoutchouc, careers PY - 2008 VL - 260 SN - 1281250694 9786611250690 1402067186 1402067178 PB - New York, N.Y. : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, DB - UniCat KW - Plant breeding KW - Animal breeding KW - Agriculture KW - Science and state KW - National socialism and science. KW - Research KW - History. KW - History KW - Kaiser Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften. KW - Kaizā Uiruherumu Gakujutsu Shinkō Kyōkai KW - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft KW - Kaizā Viruherumu Kagaku Shinkō Kyōkai KW - Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute KW - Kaiser Wilhelm Society KW - KWG KW - K.W.G. KW - KWS KW - K.W.S. KW - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften KW - Science and national socialism KW - Science KW - Farming KW - Husbandry KW - Industrial arts KW - Life sciences KW - Food supply KW - Land use, Rural KW - Domestic animals KW - Breeding KW - Crops KW - Agricultural economics. KW - Agriculture. KW - Plant genetics. KW - Animal physiology. KW - History of Science. KW - Agricultural Economics. KW - History, general. KW - Plant Genetics and Genomics. KW - Animal Physiology. KW - Animal physiology KW - Animals KW - Biology KW - Anatomy KW - Plants KW - Genetics KW - Agrarian question KW - Agribusiness KW - Agricultural economics KW - Agricultural production economics KW - Production economics, Agricultural KW - Annals KW - Auxiliary sciences of history KW - Physiology KW - Economic aspects KW - Kaiser Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Wissenschaften. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:217038 AB - The book offers a history of the agricultural sciences in Nazi Germany. It analyzes scientific practice under the Nazi regime, Nazi agricultural policy and autarkic strategies as well as expansion policy in Eastern Europe. It also offers new insights into the Auschwitz concentration camp. It outlines the Nazi’s comprehensive nutritional and agricultural research program intended to prepare Germany for war by raising productivity through scientific means, researching the relation between nutrition and performance at the edge of starvation, and restructuring the agricultural economy of the continent. The book reveals the relation between science and power in Nazi Germany beyond the usual dichotomy that paints scientists in Nazi Germany either as victims of oppression or as sadistic beasts. It shows the involvement of a high ranking scientific elite in the Nazi regime of occupation and looting of cultural goods in the occupied eastern territories – largely for the sake of their own careers. The main audience the book addresses are students of history and the history of science, and anyone interested in the history of Nazi Germany. ER -