{"product_id":"hitler-the-scientist-how-pseudo-science-and-anti-semitism-shaped-hitlers-destiny-paperback","title":"Hitler The Scientist - How Pseudo-Science and Anti-Semitism Shaped Hitler's Destiny (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWhen Hitler came to power in 1933, he promised the German\npeople a technocratic state where science, technology, and education would grow\nand flourish. Unfortunately, any attempts to achieve such a goal were dependent\non his educational background, which was fundamentally flawed and severely\ndistorted. Hitler’s schooling was a troubled time where he struggled with many\nsubjects. In particular, he found conflicting views between science and\nreligion so difficult to understand that it caused him to “run his head against\nthe wall.” He was also heavily educated in subjects like myths, magic,\npseudo-sciences, and the occult, which would become his versions of alternative\nscience and alternative facts. These alternatives remained with him into\nadulthood, where, as Führer, his mentality and mindset toward science were\nhighlighted when he announced: “A new age of magic interpretation of the world\nis coming, of interpretation in terms of the will and not the intelligence.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eHitler’s ideology and rise to power also came at an\ninteresting time for physics, which was hinting at that will-not-intelligence\ninterpretation. The early decades of the twentieth century had seen a\nrevolution in two apparently connected key areas of the subject: quantum\nmechanics and relativity. These would have a dramatic influence on Hitler and\nthe physics of the Third Reich. During the 1920s, quantum mechanics was\nsuggesting that just by observing an experiment, a scientist could alter the\noutcome and reality. However, at the same time, Albert Einstein’s theory of\nrelativity was also developing, and whereas the two areas were believed to be\nlinked, to the Nazis, there was a serious problem. Whereas German physicist Max\nPlanck’s quantum physics was a non-Jewish science, hinting at that promised\nmagical underlying foundation to physics and reality, Einstein was Jewish, and\nso was his theory. Moreover, relativity was difficult to understand and accept,\nespecially amongst certain right-wing experimental physicists. Therefore,\nrelativity was easy to reject, with the magical quantum world eagerly accepted\nby the Nazis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eHowever, with Hitler’s ability to understand science clearly\nstrained and steadfast from childhood, together with his seething\nanti-Semitism, this decision set the Nazis on a research road very different\nfrom the Allies. As the decade progressed, so did the ridicules toward Jewish\nscience through Einstein and his theory. This set in motion extreme\nanti-Semitic attacks on him by those extreme right-wing experimental\nphysicists, many of whom would later find key roles in Hitler’s government. As\nsuch, theoretical physics, dominated by Jewish scientists, was rejected en\nmasse, with key Jewish scientists dismissed from their academic posts. Instead,\nthe Third Reich favored experimental, or applied, physics, which shaped much of\nHitler’s war machine with the so-called magical interpretation of quantum\nmechanics and its apparent will over intelligence providing the basis for\nunconventional pseudo-scientific research—research like free energy,\nanti-gravity, and hidden occultist physics through ancient texts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThrough Hitler’s key reforms in science and education and\nHeinrich Himmler’s SS, science became politicized, with an added danger that\ncertain areas were replaced with Nazi alternatives like pseudo-science, magic,\nand the occult. The result was that certain areas of true science became\npseudo-sciences, while the Third Reich’s pseudo-sciences became the true\nsciences. Disciplines then became Aryan physics, Aryan chemistry, Aryan\nbiology, Aryan mathematics, and so on, with all expected to prove their place\nwithin National Socialism or perish. From there, science experienced an era of\ndivision and decline, with loss of freedom and diversity, misapplication of\ninnovation, and the inevitable decline in some areas of the natural sciences,\nespecially physics and mathematics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eBy the war’s end, Himmler’s SS had taken control of much of\nNazi Germany’s scientific research, and with the unthinkable dawning on the\nNazis that they might lose the war, Hitler placed SS General Hans Kammler in\ncharge of producing new and unconventional wonder weapons, even superweapons,\nthrough his own think tank along the lines of Himmler’s Ahnenerbe. Hitler’s\nfaith in Kammler meant he was promoted to only one rank below Himmler, working\nwith him in an intense effort to turn the war around, especially following the\nD-Day landings. To the very end, Hitler continued to declare these superweapons\nwould save Nazi Germany, but this led to intolerable strain on his generals\nwhen Hitler ordered troops to make last-ditch attempts to protect certain\nlocations, locations his generals did not fully understand and made no tactical\nsense as the Allies advanced on Berlin. Once again, Hitler had failed to\nunderstand the true situation, while Kammler and Himmler had their own plans in\nplace. It is clear the foundations of Hitler’s education and its support by\nlike-minded Nazis set in place a destiny that helped the downfall of the Third\nReich. Consequently, over time, the promised veneer of scientific and\neducational modernization under his technocratic state suffered seriously, and\nalthough this did not initially cause his government to collapse, it neither\nallowed it to thrive anywhere close to the many promises he made to the German\npeople.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAll this was a far cry from Germany’s scientific research of\nthe nineteenth century, which saw staggering achievements up to Hitler’s rise\nto power. These golden years built an unrivaled global reputation from the\nfoundations of chemistry, expanding into other scientific disciplines like\nphysics and astronomy. In doing so, Germany’s economy flourished, and by the\nearly twentieth century, over half of the Nobel Prizes were won by German\nscientists or German-speaking scientists, many of whom were Jews. Although\nHitler spoke of the golden years and promised to build upon them, it was yet\nanother broken promise based on his lack of scientific understanding and how\nscience needed to do its job. With fleeing Jewish scientists and failures under\na dictator focused on pseudo-science and seething anti-Semitism, the Allies\ntook full advantage of the destiny Hitler had created for himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout The Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Pike \u003c\/b\u003egraduated from the University of London\nwith a degree in astrophysics. He went on to postgraduate study and research in\nplasma astrophysics and mathematical sciences, including engineering\nmathematics.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eHis research interests have included the history of science,\natmospheric physics, and space weather, including Unidentified Aerial Phenomena\n(UAPs) usually associated with the UFO subject. As a result, his interest in\nmilitary physics began when he was the first civilian physicist to investigate\nstrange aerial lights and a delta-shaped stealth-like aircraft that buzzed the\ntwin airbases of RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge during Christmas week 1980.\nThese bases were leased to the USAF at the height of the Cold War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eHe has written five books connected with astronomy and the\nunexplained, as well as contributing to many newsstand magazines. He was also\nthe space and astronomy consultant for UFO Magazine (UK) and The Unopened\nFiles, the latter of which later became the military intelligence magazine Eye\nSpy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIn January 1994, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal\nAstronomical Society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PANSING DISTRIBUTION PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45673935012047,"sku":"9781399079754","price":32.7,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_963cbcb6-ac49-4c16-941b-54ba71662178.webp?v=1785720071","url":"https:\/\/popular.baby\/products\/hitler-the-scientist-how-pseudo-science-and-anti-semitism-shaped-hitlers-destiny-paperback","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}