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Of the innumerable sources, two are indispensable: Alan D. Beyerchen, Scientists under Hitler: Politics and the Physics Community in the Third Reich (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1977), and for a treasure trove of primary sources (in English), Klaus Hentschel, ed., Physics and National Socialism: An Anthology of Primary Sources. Ann M. Hertschel, Editorial Assistant and Translator (Basel, Boston, Berlin: Birhäuser Verlag, 1996). See also Mark Walker, Nazi Science: Myth, Truth, and the German Atomic Bomb (New York and London: Plenum Press, 1995).
Dieter Hoffmann, “Between Autonomy and Accommodation: The German Physical Society during the Third Reich,” Physics in Perspective 7 (2005), 293–329.
Samuel Goudsmit, [review of Scientists under Hitler], Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 34 (September 1978), 47–49, on 47–48.
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Book Reviews. Phys. Perspect. 14, 371–387 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-012-0100-2
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