After Hitler came to power in 1933, science and technology were quickly pressed into service by racist, xenophobic ideologies. From 1939 to the war's end, scientists working under military control began research on nuclear chain reaction with the prospect of arming Hitler with an atomic bomb. By 1943, few areas of German science, technology, and industry had not been tainted by degenerate exploitation of slave labor with attendant brutality, human experimentation, and mass killing.
How German scientists behaved in the era spanning the beginning of the First War and the end of the Second raises many questions, disturbing and relevant to this day, about how scientists act under pressure of social and political circumstances and events. In pondering the moral and political predicament of the unregulated pursuit of scientific progress, Hitler's Scientists today prompts uncomfortable parallels with the past.
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AUTHOR
John Cornwell is in the department of history and philosophy of
science at Cambridge University. He is also an award winning journalist
and director of the Science and Human Dimension Project at Cambridge
University. He is a regular feature writer at the Sunday Times (London)
and the author and editor of four books on science, including Power to
Harm, on the Louisville Prozae trial. He lives in Cambridge, England.
NARRATOR
Simon Prebble is considered one of the premier voices in the
audiobook industry, having narrated nearly 150 titles. In addition, the
UK native has extensive voice-over experience in industrial, public
service, radio, television advertising campaigns, and has been an
on-camera spokesman for corporate presentations and a veteran of
television soap operas, "As The World Turns" and "Loving." Hitler's Scientists is his first Audie Award nomination.
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REVIEWSUSA Today
"Hitler's Scientists is one of the most intellectually stimulating and rewarding CDs this listener has ever heard."
Hitler's Scientists: Science, War and the Devil's Pact
Author: John Cornwell
Narrator: Simon Prebble
ISBN: 9781593162979
SRP: $29.95
Length: 6:00:00
Item No: LL316
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