The Father, the Son, and the Human Soul: Reflections on Walther Rathenau’s Life and Work

Volkov, Shulamit

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“…The fate of Walter Rathenau was more tragic than Wasserman's. "Writes Volkov [44]: "As early as August 1914 [during WWI], diagnosing one of Germany's worst strategic weaknesses in the total lack of planning for the supply of essential raw materials, he devised an elaborate proposal to improve matters; to his own surprise, plans were immediately set in motion to put it all into effect and he himself was appointed as head of a special Raw Materials Office within the War Ministry. Eight months of hectic work followed.…”

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Was Stephen Timoshenko right about the Jewish scientists in Germany?

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2023

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Stephen Timoshenko was the author of numerous textbooks on various aspects of applied mechanics, and through them contributed to its rapid development in the world. As always, the community is also interested in the personal side of the scientists. This paper is devoted to a single statement made by Stephen Timoshenko in his autobiographical book. Specifically, it concerns Timoshenko's at least partial “explanation” of the Holocaust that took place during WWII. Whereas Timoshenko's statement constituted, to the present writer, open antisemitism, it does not seem to disturb many researchers who continue to honor him in various ways. “Nonsense is nonsense, but the history of nonsense is scholarship,” according to Saul Lieberman. Hence the present article presents an investigation of Timoshenko's nonsensical and overly antisemitic statement. This author corresponded with a number of historians of science all repudiating Timoshenko's assertions. Most importantly, the correspondents shed additional vivid light on the Holocaust as experienced by Jewish scientists.

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Section: Who Were Eastern European Jews That Are Mentioned In Timoshe...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Was Stephen Timoshenko right about the Jewish scientists in Germany?

Elishakoff

2023

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The Father, the Son, and the Human Soul: Reflections on Walther Rathenau’s Life and Work

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Was Stephen Timoshenko right about the Jewish scientists in Germany?

Was Stephen Timoshenko right about the Jewish scientists in Germany?

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