Intellectual Collaboration with the Third Reich: Treason or Reason?

Edited by Maria Björkman, Patrik Lundell and Sven Widmalm.

This book investigates the rather neglected “intellectual” collaboration between National Socialist Germany and other countries, including views on knowledge and politics among “pro-German” intellectuals, using a comparative approach. These moves were shaped by the Nazi system, which viewed scientific and cultural exchange as part and parcel of their cultural propaganda and policy. Positive views of the Hitler regime among intellectuals of all sorts were indicative of a broader discontent with democracy that, among other things, represented an alternative approach to modernization which was not limited to the German heartlands. The book draws together international experts in an analysis of right-wing Europe under Hitler; a study which has gained new resonance amidst the wave of European nationalism in the twenty-first century.

Maria Björkman is Researcher at the Department of History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University and works on the history of medicine and the Swedish German-friendly physicians and scholars during 1933-1970s. Patrik Lundell is Professor of History at Örebro University and his research mainly concerns the cultural history of the media, specifically the ideology, self-image, and strivings for legitimacy of the newspaper press and far right-wing media strategies. Sven Widmalm is Professor of History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University and works on the history of science and has also focused on the intellectual connections between Sweden and Nazi Germany.

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