Instructors
David Holloway - Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History and FSI Senior Fellow; CISAC Faculty Member; Forum on Contemporary Europe Research Affiliate; CDDRL Affiliated Faculty

Exploration of the profound and complex relationship between science and politics under the Nazis. Three areas: the German atomic bomb project; the German rocket program; science, racism, and the Holocaust. Topics include behavior of scientists under Nazi rule; degree to which Nazis integrated science and engineering into their ideology; effect of Nazi ideology on scientific research and medical practice; harm done to German science by Nazi racial policies. Issues of ethics and historical interpretation central to course.

Level
Undergraduate

Units
5

Department
Overseas Studies in Berlin
School of Humanities and Sciences