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influence of, 468, 517, 682
overlap with Weber, 826
use of term Aryan, 430
Wagner and, 335–338
Nietzsche contra Wagner (Nietzsche), 337
Nightingale, Florence, 317–318
nihilism, 147, 823–825
Nine Books of Prussian History (Neun Bücher preussische Geschichte) (Ranke), 268
Ninotchka (film), 589, 590–591
Nipperdey, Thomas, 30, 46, 58, 197, 227, 228, 232, 279, 305, 427, 446, 456
Nissel, Siegmund, 752
Nissen, Hans J., 844
Nixon, St. John, 376
Nobel Peace Prize, 681, 682, 814
Nobel Prize for Economics, 749
Nobel Prize for Literature, 404, 792, 814
Nobel Prize for Physics, 596, 598, 599
Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 389, 391, 814
Noddack, Ida and Walter, 666
Nolde, Emil, 568, 630, 633
Nolte, Ernst, 11, 748
No Man’s Land (Dorle und Wolf) (Walser), 793
No More Parades (Ford), 579
Nonne, Max, 556
Non: Pour le Mérite (film), 640
Nordau, Max, 428, 431, 839
North German Confederation, 424
Norton, Anne, 723
Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (Eliot), 34, 840
Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg), 138, 191, 200
Novembergruppe, 568–569, 585
Novick, Peter, 7–8, 9, 10, 732
Nye, Mary Jo, 343
O
Oberhausen Manifesto, 806
Oberländer, Theodor, 670
Oberth, Hermann, 693
Obrist, Hermann, 508, 509, 515, 516
Observe and Question, 13
Obsoleteness of Man, The (Die Antiquietheit des Menschen) (Anders), 771
Oesterle, Anna, 656
Offenbach, Jacques, 463
Offending the Audience (Publikumsbeschimpfung) (Handke), 804
Office of Ancestral Inheritance, 656
Ohain, Han von, 600
Ohm, Martin, 355
Oken, Lorenz, 85, 228, 282, 430
Oliphant, Mark, 667Öllinger, Hans, 14
Olympia (film), 639
Oncken, Hermann, 534
One Dimensional Man (Marcuse), 722, 779****
On Humanism (Über den Humanismus) (Heidegger), 770
On Nationalism and the Jewish Question (Über Nationalismus und die Judenfrage) (Jünger), 709
On Social Differentiation (Über social Differenzierung) (Simmel), 446–447
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (Über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen) (Schiller), 129–130
On the Concept of Number (Über den Begriff der Zahl) (Husserl), 486
On the Connection between the Animal and Spiritual Nature of Man (Schiller), 127
“On the Consequences of a Theorem in the Theory of Trigonometric Series” (Cantor), 486
On the Conservation of Force (Helmholtz), 344
“On the Hindus” (Jones), 190
“On the Hypotheses which Lie at the Foundation of Geometry” (Riemann), 350
“On the Jewish Question” (Marx), 249
“On the Kind of Motion that We Call Heat” (Clausius), 346–347
On the Marble Cliffs (Auf den Marmorklippen) (Jünger), 709
On the Misfortune and Fortune of Art in Germany after the Last War (Vom Unglück und Glück der Kunst in Deutschland nach dem letzten Krieg) (Syberberg), 782
“On the Moving Force of Heat, and the Laws Regarding the Nature of Heat That Are Deductible Therefrom” (Clausius), 345
On the Natural History of Destruction (Luftkrieg und Literatur) (Sebald), 798
On the Origin of Species (Darwin), 259, 393, 426
On the Vocation of the Scholar (Fichte), 228
On the World Soul (Von der Weltseele) (F. Schelling), 202
On War (Vom Kriege) (Clausewitz), 184, 185–188
Opel, Fritz von, 693
Open Society and Its Enemies, The (Popper), 706, 707
opera, 155–156
Aryan myths and, 435
forms of, 328
under Hitler, 644
Italian, 155
Mozart, 157, 158, 643
Weber, 160
Zeitoper, 587
Operation Paperclip, 695
Oper und Drama (Wagner), 328
Oppenheim, Bram, 746
optics, 203, 204–205, 366
Orators, The (Auden), 818
Ordinary Men (Browning), 20
Orfeo ed Euridice (Gluck), 155
Organic Chemistry in Its Applications to Agriculture and Physiology (Liebig), 280
Organon of Homeopathic Medicine, The (Die Organon der rationellen Heilkunde) (Hahnemann), 176
Oriental Renaissance, The (Schwab), 181, 189
Origin of Continents and Oceans, The (Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane) (Wegener), 557
Origin of German Tragic Drama, The (Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels) (Benjamin), 619
Origin of Kingship in Germany, The (Die Entstehung des deutschen Königstums) (Sybel), 406
Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, The (Der Ursprung der Familie, des Privateigentums und des Staats) (Engels), 258
Origins of Totalitarianism, The (Arendt), 720–721
Origo, Iris, 755
Ossietsky, Carl von, 582
Ostini, Abbate Pietro, 217
Ostwald, Ludwig, 477
Otto, Frei, 814
Ottomans and the Spanish Monarchy of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Ranke), 267
Our Daily Bread (film), 805
Our Sons (Michelet), 395
“Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy” (Engels), 250
Overbeck, Johann Friedrich, 215, 217, 218
Owen, Richard, 85
Owen, Wilfred, 551
Oxenford, John, 331
Oxpovat, Alex, 169
Oyster Princess, The (film), 589
Oz, Amos, 9
Ozawa, Seiji, 809
Ozment, Steven, 43
P
Pacelli, Eugenio (Pius XII), 668, 683
Pachelbel, Johann, 60, 153
painting
Abstract Expressionists, 734
after World War II, 810–813
Biedermeier, 306
fresco paintings, 218, 220, 239, 875n39
German-Americans and, 325
landscape, 221
in Dachau, 507
Painting with Skiff (Kandinsky), 516–517
paleontology, 170
Pallas, Peter Simon, 169
Pan (periodical), 510
Pandora (ballet), 747
Pandora’s Box (Die Büchse der Pandora) (Wedekind), 515
Pan-German League (Alldeutscher Verband), 420–421, 501
Pan-German Thule Society, 562
Pankok, Bernhard, 508, 509
Panofsky, Erwin, 570, 607, 702, 714, 733, 734, 735, 741
Papon, Maurice, 17
Papst, Eugen, 636
Park, Robert, 453
Parsifal (film), 782
Parsifal (Wagner), 327, 329, 334, 339
Parsley, Malcolm, 157
Partisan Review (magazine), 720
Passavant, Johann David, 215
Past and Present (journal), 749
Pasteur, Louis, 388
Pastor, Ludwig von, 433, 607
Pastorius, Franz Daniel, 323
Pastors’ Emergency League, 680
pastors’ sons, role of, 834, 837
Pater, Walter, 315
patriotism, 94, 230, 622
Patterson, Michael, 803, 804
Pattison, Mark, 318
Pauli, Wolfgang, 596–597, 738, 841
Paulsen, Friedrich, 226, 450, 542
Paxton, Robert, 16
Péan, Pierre, 17
Peano, Giuseppe, 486
Peasants at Midday (Kirchner), 633
Pechstein, Max, 6
30
Peculiarities of German History, The (Blackbourn and Eley), 27
Peierls, Rudolf, 667, 745, 746
Pelzel, Thomas, 209
Penck, A. R., 812
Penn, William, 321–322
People of Seldwyla, The (Die Leute von Seldwyla) (Keller), 297
Perfection of Technology (Die Perfektion der Technik) (Jüger), 770–771
Perkin, William, 357
Perls, Fritz, 719–720
Perls, Hugo, 735
perpetual peace, Kant’s notion of, 145–146
Pertz, Georg Heinrich, 266
Perutz, Max, 745, 746, 753
Peter, Friedrich, 14
Pevsner, Nicholas, 745, 748
Pfaff, Johann Friedrich, 226
Pfannkuche, A. H. T., 428
Pfeil, L. H., 316
Pfister’s Mill (Pfisters Mühle) (Raabe), 440
Pfitzner, Hans, 644, 645
Pforr, Franz, 215
Phaidon Press, 747
Phalanx group, 516
pharmaceutical industry, 360, 364, 387
PhD degree, 53, 835
Phenomenology of the Spirit (Phänomenologie des Geistes) (Hegel), 241, 243
philhellenism, 100, 108
Philological Museum, The (periodical), 317
philology, 230, 317
Philosophia botanica (Linnaeus), 117
Philosophical Faith (Der philosophische Glaube angesichts der Offenbarung) (Jaspers), 769
Philosophical Investigations (Wittgenstein), 753
Philosophical Magazine, 347
Philosophie der Mythologie (Schelling), 191
Philosophische Gespräche (M. Mendelssohn), 137
Philosophische Rundschau (journal), 773
philosophy. See also freedom, concept of Hegelianism in universities, 237
influence of refugees in the United States, 729–730
logical positivism, 602–603, 631
music and, 161–163
speculative, 239–240, 831, 838
theory of logic, 559
in Weimar Germany, 603–607
Philosophy (Klimt), 498
Philosophy of Arithmetic (Philosophie der Arithmetik) (Husserl), 486–487
Philosophy of Money, The (Die Philosophie des Geldes) (Simmel), 447, 449
Philosophy of Symbolic Forms (Philosophie der Symbolischen Formen) (E. Cassirer), 606
photography, 387, 735
physics, 341–353, 475–484, 666–667
anti-relativists, 599
Aryan, 653
contemporary, 844
emigration of physicists, 659–660
intellectual overlap with mathematics, 600–601
theoretical, 854
in Weimar Germay, 506–603
Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt, 343
Physiology Society (Berlin), 388
Pia Desideria (Spener), 47
Piano Player, The (Die Klavierspielerin) (Jelinek), 794
Picture Bible (Schnorr), 220
Picture Book for Good Children (Bilderbuch für artige Kinder) (H. and T. Mann), 511
Picture Puzzle (Suchbild) (Meckel), 796
Piene, Otto, 811
Pierrot lunaire (Schoenberg), 472–473
Pietas Hallensis (Woodward), 316
Pietism, 45–46, 67–68, 87, 321, 830
Pinax (Bauhin), 80
Pinkard, Terry, 146
Piscator, Erwin, 584, 586, 701, 736, 803
Planck, Max, 345–346, 352, 476, 480–482, 533, 552, 598, 659, 660, 665, 819
Playfair, Nigel, 586
“Plea for Forgetting, A” (Elkana), 9–10
Pledge, The (Die Bürgschaft) (Becker), 796
Plenzdorf, Ulrich, 795
Plessner, Helmuth, 762
Ploetz, Alfred, 431, 433–434
Plough, Sword and Book (Gellner), 755
Plücker, Julius, 234
poetry
Biedermeier, 305
in East Germany, 801–802
as link between language and nature, 205
versus mathematics, 76–77
as the mother tongue, 192
music and, 831
political, 304
superiority of, 291–292
Tendenzdichter, 299
in West Germany, 799–800
during World War I, 547–550
Poggendorff, Johann Christian, 342, 343, 345
Pogge von Strandmann, Hartmut, 381
Poland, 18, 669–670
Polanyi, Karl, 727
Polanyi, Michael, 567
Poliakov, Leon, 431
Political Collapse of Europe, The (Holborn), 731–732
political science and refugees in the United States, 720–724
“Politicisation of the Intelligentsia, The” (Benjamin), 619
Politics of Cultural Despair, The (F. Stern), 762
Polke, Sigmar, 756, 811
Pollock, Friedrich, 572, 631
Pommer, Erich, 568, 589, 758
Poncelet, Jean-Victor, 353
Popper, Karl, 567, 602, 706–708, 749
population, Nazi classification system, 670–671
porcelain manufacturing, 168, 306
Porter, Noah, 324
Porzellan: Poem vom Untergang meiner Stadt (Grübein), 802
Potonié, Henry, 85
Pötsch, Leopold, 559
Potsdam Institute for Military History, 24, 843
Poverty of Historicism, The (Popper), 707
Powell, Michael, 744
Power (Jud Süss) (Feuchtwanger), 579
Preminger, Otto, 587
Pressburger, Emeric, 744, 746
Preussentum und Pietismus (Hinrichs), 46
Preussische Jahrbücher, 408, 521–522
Preyer, Wihelm, 427
Primitive Rebels (Hobsbawm), 749
Prince Frederick of Homburg (Prinz Friedrich von Homburg) (Kleist), 200, 293
Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, 734
Princeton University, German scholars at, 631
“Principles of Communism” (Engels), 259
Private and Public Happiness (Hirschman), 728
Problems of Poetry, The (Probleme der Lyrik) (Benn), 800
Professor Unrat (H. Mann), 512–513, 592
Prolegomena to Homer (Prolegomena ad Homerum) (F. A. Wolf), 106, 232
Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, The (Die Protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus) (Weber), 456
Protestantism, 198, 300, 424, 456, 830
Protogaea (Leibniz), 85
Prüfer, Kurt, 695
Prussia. See also Friedrich II the Great
music, 58–60
Pietism in, 45–49
reading revolution, 55–58
rise of the university, 49–55
Prussian Academy, 480–482
Prussian Academy of Art, 527
Prussian Experience, The (Rosenberg), 49
“Prussian Universities and the Research Imperative, 1806 to 1848, the” (Turner), 225
psychiatry, World War I and, 553
psychoanalysis, 553, 556
in Britain, 753–754
under Third Reich, 661–662
in the United States, 716–720
psychology
community and Gestalt psychology, 836
influence of refugees in the United States, 716–720
Nazification of, 661
theory of Gestalt, 493
“Psychology of Money, The” (Simmel), 447
Psychology of the Unconscious, The (Jung), 555–556
Psychopathia Sexualis (Krafft-Ebing), 496
Psychopathology of Everday Life, The (Freud), 556–557
publication, freedom of, 263
public health, 385, 386
public hygiene policy, 175
publishing, 829
after Thirty Years’ War, 56
periodicals, 103, 829
refugees in Britain, 747–748
re
fugees in the United States, 735
Pufendorf, Samuel, 44
Pulzer, Peter, 21, 753
“Purity of the Reich, The” (Schumann), 635
Purkyne
Putnam, Hilary, 729
Pütter, Johann Stephan, 73
Q
Qualification and Curriculum Authority (Britain), 4
quantum theory, 480, 483, 597–598
Quest of the Historical Jesus (Von Reimarus zu Wrede) (Schweitzer), 681–682
Quine, Willard Van Orman, 603, 729, 730
Quinet, Edgar, 189
R
Raabe, Wilhelm, 440
Rabbi von Bacharah (Heine), 300
racial theory, 430, 434–436
radar, 693
radio, 478, 600, 758, 908n20
Radio Times (magazine), 2
Rahner, Karl, 787
railways, 370–371, 417
Ramsden, John, 5
Ranke, Leopold von, 26, 91, 231, 266–269, 405
Rankl, Karl, 751
Rapaport, David, 662
Rathenau, Emil, 379, 509
Rathenau, Walther, 379–380, 509, 659
Ratzinger, Joseph Alois (Benedict XVI), 5, 786–788, 849
Rau, Johannes, 847
Rauch, Christian, 215
Rauschenberg, Robert, 734
Read, Herbert, 622
Reader, The (Der Vorleser) (Schlink), 797
reading revolution, 55–56, 831, 837
Realism, 440, 524
redemptive community, 836–837, 839
“Rede vor Arbeitern in Wien” (T. Mann), 200
Redlich, Fritz, 727, 728
Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man (Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen) (T. Mann), 563
Reflections on Christa T. (Nachdenken über Christa T.) (C. Wolf), 795, 833
Reflections on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind (Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit) (Herder), 123
refugees
in Britain, 699, 743–756
Emergency Society of German Scholars Abroad, 663
impression of American people, 716
in the Netherlands, 506, 507, 699
remigrants, 769
in the United States, 720–724, 727–728, 729–730, 730–733