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Focusing on the intersection of science and power, this book delves into the agricultural sciences during the Nazi regime, revealing how scientific practices were employed to support autarkic policies and expansionist strategies in Eastern Europe. It uncovers the extensive nutritional research aimed at enhancing productivity amid wartime conditions and highlights the complicity of elite scientists in the regime's oppressive actions, including the exploitation of occupied territories. The work serves as a critical resource for students and scholars interested in the history of Nazi Germany and the role of science within it.

The book explores the collaboration between scientists at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes and the Nazi regime during Hitler's rule, highlighting their roles in advancing autarky, racial hygiene, and wartime efforts, including the horrific practices of genocide. It delves into the ethical implications of this partnership and the impact of scientific research on the atrocities committed during this dark period in history.

In den Jahren zwischen dem Novemberpogrom 1938 und den großen Deportationen im Oktober 1941 erlebten die deutschen Juden eine drastische Verschlechterung ihrer Lebensbedingungen, während ihre Handlungsmöglichkeiten stark eingeschränkt wurden. Der Beginn des Krieges im September 1939 beendete die individuelle Auswanderung und jüdische Organisationen waren gezwungen, Pläne für Gruppenauswanderungen zu entwickeln. Doch die parallel angeordneten frühen Deportationen in den Distrikt Lublin und nach Frankreich setzten sie unter Zeitdruck. Zudem waren sie auf die Unterstützung internationaler Hilfsorganisationen, der Regierungen in den Aufnahmeländern und jüdischer Gemeinden in den Nachbarländern angewiesen. Die Beiträge in diesem Band beleuchten die verzweifelten Bemühungen der deutschen Juden, der drohenden Katastrophe zu entkommen. Themen umfassen die Rolle internationaler Hilfsorganisationen, die Erfahrungen deutsch-jüdischer Männer in Konzentrationslagern, frühe Deportationen, die Auswanderung von „jüdischen Mischlingen“ sowie die institutionelle Unterstützung für katholische „Nichtarier“. Des Weiteren wird die jüdisch-zionistische Auswanderung und die Situation von Flüchtlingen in verschiedenen Ländern behandelt.

"The book offers a history of the agricultural sciences in Nazi Germany. It analyzes scientific practice under the Nazi regime, Nazi agricultural policy and autarkic strategies as well as expansion policy in Eastern Europe. It also offers new insights into the Auschwitz concentration camp. It outlines the Nazi's comprehensive nutritional and agricultural research program intended to prepare Germany for war by raising productivity through scientific means, researching the relation between nutrition and performance at the edge of starvation, and restructuring the agricultural economy of the continent." "The book reveals the relation between science and power in Nazi Germany beyond the usual dichotomy that paints scientists in Nazi Germany either as victims of oppression or as sadistic beasts. It shows the involvement of a high ranking scientific elite in the Nazi regime of occupation and looting of cultural goods in the occupied eastern territories - largely for the sake of their own careers. The main audience the book addresses are students of history and the history of science, and anyone interested in the history of Nazi Germany."--Jacket