Dr. Hans Beutelspacher

Rites of Janus

Dr. Hans Beutelspacher toyed with monstrous behaviour during World War II, before returning just as effortlessly to his «human» and even benevolent state, later developing a prominent career in the field of soil biochemistry.

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Science and philosophy in the genesis of Nazism

Open call for papers on the philosophical roots and alleged scientific bases of Nazism. Deadline for submission: 12 February 2024.

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Angela Saini

Interview with Angela Saini

We speak with British author and journalist Angela Saini about her latest book, Superior: the return of race science.

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The Nazi anti-urban utopia

Poland would become the laboratory for an inhumane colonisation plan, the Generalplan Ost, which involved replacement of the non-Aryan population with Germanic farmers.

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Caballo Blanco coffee plantation in Guatemala

Race and soil

The concept of «blood and soil» as a historical determinant could be found in Termer’s work ten years before the Nazis used it as their state’s official ideology.

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Einstein and Nazi physics

In a Germany with widespread and growing anti-Semitism, and later with the rise of Nazism, Albert Einstein’s physics faced hostility and was attacked on racial grounds.

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Destroyed research in Nazi Vienna

Academic life in Vienna was hit harder by National Socialism than anywhere else in Germany, due to the high numbers of scientists of Jewish origins.

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Science and political ideology

Scientists supported Nazi ideologies and policies in many ways

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Science and Nazism

This monograph seeks precisely to show the level of involvement of the German academic world with Nazi postulates.

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‘Science and Nazism’, the new Mètode monograph

The third volume published by Mètode in 2019 sheds light on the involvement of science in the policies of the Third Reich.

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