Intellectual Collaboration with the Third Reich

Treason or Reason?

Maria Björkman, Patrik Lundell, Sven Widmalm

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9780815394747
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351185097
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Eastern European History
• Index: History

The book investigates the rather neglected "intellectual" collaboration between National Socialist Germany and other countries, including views on knowledge and politics among "pro-German" intellectuals, using a comparative approach. These moves were shaped by the Nazi system, which viewed scientific and cultural exchange as part and parcel of their cultural propaganda and policy. Positive views of the Hitler regime among intellectuals of all sorts were indicative of a broader discontent with democracy that, among other things, represented an alternative approach to modernization which was not limited to the German heartlands.

This book draws together international experts in an analysis of right-wing Europe under Hitler; a study which has gained new resonance amidst the wave of European nationalism in the twenty-first century.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1. Collaboration and normalization
• 2. “Zwischenvölkisches Verstehen”: Theory and practice of knowledge transfer, 1933–1945
• 3. The art of Nazi international networking: The visual arts in the rhetoric and reality of Hitler’s European New Order
• 4. Treason? What treason? German–foreign friendship societies and transnational relations between right-wing intellectuals during the Nazi period
• 5. Some remarks on relations between Germany and Japan in the field of research, 1933‒1945
• 6. Between competition, co-operation and collaboration: The International Committee of Historical Sciences, the International Historical Congresses and German historiography, 1933–1945
• 7. The Academy of Sciences of Lisbon between science, international politics, and neutrality, 1932–1945
• 8. Sympathy for the devil? American support for German sciences after 1933
• 9. Hektor Ammann’s völkisch idea of medieval economics and the place of Switzerland in Nazi-dominated Europe
• 10. An agent of indirect propaganda: Normalizing Nazi Germany in the Swedish medical journal Svenska Läkartidningen 1933–1945
• 11. Transnational encounters in science: Knowledge exchanges and ideological entanglements between Portugal and Nazi Germany 1933–1945
• 12. German foreign cultural policy and higher education in Brazil, 1933–1942
• 13. The politics of “neutral” science: Swiss geneticists and their relations with Nazi Germany
• 14. Contributing to the cultural “New Order”: How German intellectuals attributed a prominent place for the Spanish nation
• 15. Copenhagen revisited
• 16. On the structural conditions for scientific amorality
• Index