Article ID: CBB692178820

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

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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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Authors & Contributors
Vermeir, Koen
Mangione, Daniela
Alison Lynn McManus
Yasnitsky, Anton
Taussig, Sylvie
Stahnisch, Frank W.
Concepts
Censorship
Science and politics
Secrecy
Correspondence and corresponding
Historiography
Communication of scientific ideas
Time Periods
20th century
17th century
20th century, early
Early modern
19th century
18th century
Places
Italy
United States
Germany
Soviet Union
France
Strasbourg (France)
Institutions
Reichsuniversität Strassburg
American Physical Society
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