Nazi research. Reopening the darkest chapter in German science.

Abstract

NAZI RESEARCHBERLIN-- As historians dig up disturbing new details about the complicity of German researchers in Nazi-era crimes, officials are calling for full disclosure of the tainted past of leading scientific institutions. Last month, a meeting, sponsored by the country's main science granting agency, was held here on Interactions, Continuities, and Inconsistencies From the Late Empire to the Early German Federal Republic/Democratic Republic. And new evidence suggests that the cover-up of certain Nazi-era abuses, and the postwar scientific community's embrace of dozens of tainted researchers, was more widespread than previously imagined.