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Author Nowak, Eugeniusz, author

Title Biologists in the age of totalitarianism : personal reminiscences of ornithologists and other naturalists / by Eugeniusz Nowak ; translated from the German by Brian Hillcoat, Leela Sashidharan, and Mike Smart ; edited by Brian Hillcoat
Published Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 358 pages)
Contents Erwin Stresemann (1889-1972) -- War, East Prussia, Siberia, Auschwitz -- Fugitives, displaced persons, Émigres, prisoners -- Living and working in a world full of danger -- Between internal exile and conformity -- A look into the past, into the world of espionage, and at the present -- Professor Ernst Schäfer (1910-1992)
Summary This fascinating volume resulted from one man's frustration with the series of whitewashed obituaries and laudations he had to endure in his long career in West Germany. These were often of biologists who had worked in the Third Reich, a period generally skipped over in such eulogies. Dr Eugeniusz Nowak, born in Poland in 1933, therefore decided to do some historical research of his own. His series of controversial 'alternative' biographies of mainly German biologists in various journals soon grew into a successful book, with German, Russian and Polish editions. Now at last translated into Eng
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Biologists -- Biography
Biology, life sciences.
History of science.
Biography: science, technology & medicine.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
NATURE -- Reference.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biology.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- General.
Biologists
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781527514386
1527514382