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Notes
[1]. John Cornwell, _Hitler’s Pope: The Secret  History of Pius XII_
(London: Viking, 1999).
[2]. As, for example, Ute  Deichmann, _Biologists under Hitler_
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press,  1996) or her more recent _Flüchten,
Mitmachen, Vergessen_ (Weinheim:  Wiley-VCH, 2001) on biochemists
in the Third Reich.
[3]. Naomi Baumslag,  _Murderous Medicine_ (Westport: Praeger, 2005),
on the role of epidemic  typhus in the program of mass extermination of Jews,
or Robert Proctor, _The  Nazi War on Cancer_ (Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1999), a classic  study of "progressive" aspects of Nazi medicine and
public health policy and  its emphasis on diet, anti-smoking campaigns and
elimination of occupational  carcinogens.
[4]. Some excellent works on eugenics include Peter Weingart,  Jürgen
Kroll and Kurt Bayertz, eds., _Rasse, Blut und Gene_ (Frankfurt am  Main:
Suhrkamp, 1992); Michael Burleigh, _Death and Deliverance_  (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1994); Götz Aly, _Cleansing the  Fatherland_, tr.
Belinda Cooper (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,  1994); and Benno
Müller-Hill, _Murderous Science_ (Plainview: Cold Spring  Harbor Laboratory
Press, 1998). Three examples of solid general works on Nazi  medicine are 
Robert
Lifton, _Nazi Doctors_ (New York: Basic Books, 1986);  Michael Kater, _Doctors
under Hitler_ (Chapel Hill: University of North  Carolina Press, 1989); and 
Paul
Weindling, _Health, Race, and German Politics  Between National Unification 
and
Nazism, 1870-1945_ (Cambridge: Cambridge  University Press, 1989).
[5]. Michael Frayn, _Copenhagen_ (New York: Anchor  Books, 2000), p. 3.
[6]. Samuel Goudsmit, _Alsos_ (New York: H. Schuman,  1947), quoted in
Jeremy Bernstein, _Hitler's Uranium Club_ (New York:  Copernicus Books,
2001).
[7].  Paul Lawrence Rose, _Heisenberg and  the Nazi Atomic Bomb Project:
A Study in German Culture_ (Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1998).
[8]. David C. Cassidy, _Uncertainty:  The Life and Science of Werner
Heisenberg_ (New York: W.H. Freeman,  1992).
[9]. Bernstein, _Hitler's Uranium Club_.
[10]. Mark Walker, _Nazi  Science: Myth, Truth, and the German Atomic
Bomb (New York, Plenum Press,  1995). The older work is Mark Walker, _German
National Socialism and the  Quest for Nuclear Power, 1939-1949_ (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press,  1989).
[11]. Saul Friedländer, ed., _Probing the Limits of  Representation:
Nazism and the Final Solution_ (Cambridge: Harvard University  Press, 1992).
[12]. For a detailed discussion of the 
representation of  Nazi scientific practices
in the history of science, see Mario Biagioli,  
"Science, Modernity, and the 'Final
Solution'”, in Friedländer, _Probing  the Limits_, pp. 185-205.

Kurt-Werner  Pörtner


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