Diskussion:Fritz Knoll
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http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6126/1368.full Science 22 March 2013: Vol. 339 no. 6126 p. 1368 DOI: 10.1126/science.339.6126.1368 News & Analysis Science Community Austrian Academy of Sciences Faces Its Nazi History Chelsea Wald
VIENNA—After the end of World War II, the Austrian Academy of Sciences officially suspended members who had joined the Nazi Party—but it quickly reinstated nearly every one. That was true even when the member was implicated enough to be kept out of the university, and even, in one case, when the person had been an officer in the notorious SS.
This decision had lasting effects on the academy, according to an academy-sponsored poster exhibit and a hefty exhibit catalog released to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the "Anschluss," the annexation of Austria to Germany in March 1938.
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Later, in the 1950s, botanist Fritz Knoll edited two academy-sponsored volumes about famous Austrian scientists, doctors, and engineers. During the war, as the Nazi Party representative to the academy, he had overseen the dismissal of Jews from the academy's institutes. In the volumes, he omitted researchers whose distinguished careers he had ended. One of them, zoologist Hans Przibram, died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.
Research by Klaus Taschwer, a newspaper science editor who contributed to the exhibit, reveals that Knoll had an extensive career as a Nazi. But the academy ignored his Nazi activities after the war. In 1959 he was elected secretary general, and in 1967 the academy awarded him the Bene Merito medal of honor of his service. "I can't understand why they did this," said the academy's vice president, historian Arnold Suppan, who worked on the exhibit.