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Collaborative relations and irresponsible purity: Herbert Mehrtens’ transformation of the historiography of science, medicine, technology and National Socialism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2024

Mark Walker
Mark Walker*
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Argument

By breaking decisively with the predominantly apologetic and hagiographic literature on science during National Socialism and employing compelling terms such as “irresponsible purity” and “collaborative relations,” Herbert Mehrtens profoundly influenced both his contemporaries and the subsequent generation of historians working in this field.

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Herbert MehrtenshistoriographymathematicsNational Socialismscience
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Science in Context , Volume 35 , Issue 4: Modernism in science and mathematics: A second look at Herbert Mehrtens , December 2022 , pp. 326 - 335
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