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Limits of Communication: Geologists’ Letters and the Nazi regime (2021)

Kölbl-Ebert, Martina (Author)

Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Volume: 56
Pages: 257-274

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Censorship Science and politics Secrecy Historiography Correspondence and corresponding Geology National Socialism

In a totalitarian regime, there are limits to communication when letters are subject to censorship; when carelessness may endanger sender as well as recipient. It shows in ritualized greeting formulas, in linguistic conventions, in lies being told and in the use of code. The historian’s remedy is the collection of numerous, independent sources, including non-verbal communication such as images or the evidence of the paper itself.

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