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:
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Collaboration and normalization
Maria Björkman, Patrik Lundell & Sven Widmalm
"Zwischenvölkisches Verstehen": Theory and practice of knowledge transfer between 1933 and 1945
Andrea Albrecht, Lutz Danneberg and Alexandra Skowronski
The art of Nazi international networking: The visual arts in the rhetoric and reality of Hitler’s European New Order
Benjamin Martin
Treason? What treason? German-foreign friendship societies and transnational relations between right-wing intellectuals during the Nazi period
Johannes Dafinger
Some remarks on relations between Germany and Japan in the field of research 1933‒1945
Hans-Joachim Bieber
Between competition, co-operation and collaboration: The International Committee of Historical Sciences, the International Historical Congresses and the German historiography, 1933–1945
Matthias Berg
The Academy of Sciences of Lisbon between science, international politics, and neutrality (1932–1945)
Fernando Clara
Sympathy for the Devil? American support for German sciences after 1933
Helke Rausch
Hektor Ammann’s völkisch idea of medieval economics and the place of Switzerland in Nazi-dominated Europe
Fabian Link
An agent of indirect propaganda: Normalizing Nazi Germany in the Swedish medical journal Svenska Läkartidningen 1933–1945
Annika Berg
Transnational encounters in science: Knowledge exchanges and ideological entanglements between Portugal and Nazi Germany (1933–1945)
Cláudia Ninhos
German foreign cultural policy and higher education in Brazil (1933–1942)
André Felipe Cândido da Silva
The politics of "neutral" science: Swiss geneticists and their relations with Nazi Germany
Pascal Germann
Contributing to the cultural "New Order": How German intellectuals attributed a prominent place for the Spanish nation
Marició Janué I Miret
Copenhagen Revisited
Mark Walker
On the structural conditions for scientific amorality
Susanne Heim
Index
About the Author :
Maria Björkman is researcher at the Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University, Sweden.
Patrik Lundell is professor of history at Örebro University, Sweden.
Sven Widmalm is professor of history of science and ideas at Uppsala University, Sweden.
