Das Nation Of Progress?

If the Nazis had never formed and Germany had eventually stabilized, then how would this pose for scientific development. I know that in Nazi Germany there was lots of scientific development, I was wondering what would happen if this new information had come from a country more respected and less, er, evil.
 
If the Nazis had never formed and Germany had eventually stabilized, then how would this pose for scientific development.

Substantial gains. The Nazi regime damaged technological progress in many ways. Merely driving many of Germany's best brains out of the country (because they were Jews or socialists or just not-fascists) caused much disruption.

Then there is the effect of the war Germany started, which killed millions of people, including lots of potential scientific and technological contributors. These deaths were substantially concentrated among technologically proficient peoples - Germans and Japanese, and also Russians. (At that time, China and India didn't really count in science and technology.) Among Americans and Britons, men with the qualities of technical elites (intelligence, math skills) were selected for air operations and suffered disproportionate deaths.

Then there is the horrific effect of the German mass murder of Jews. OTL, roughly 25% of all Nobel prizes in the sciences have been awarded to Jews. Hitler killed about half of all Jews in the world.

So without Nazi Germany, without World War II, without the Holocaust - unquestionable technological progress would be farther.
 
Substantial gains. The Nazi regime damaged technological progress in many ways. Merely driving many of Germany's best brains out of the country (because they were Jews or socialists or just not-fascists) caused much disruption.

Then there is the effect of the war Germany started, which killed millions of people, including lots of potential scientific and technological contributors. These deaths were substantially concentrated among technologically proficient peoples - Germans and Japanese, and also Russians. (At that time, China and India didn't really count in science and technology.) Among Americans and Britons, men with the qualities of technical elites (intelligence, math skills) were selected for air operations and suffered disproportionate deaths.

Then there is the horrific effect of the German mass murder of Jews. OTL, roughly 25% of all Nobel prizes in the sciences have been awarded to Jews. Hitler killed about half of all Jews in the world.

So without Nazi Germany, without World War II, without the Holocaust - unquestionable technological progress would be farther.

Agreed.

I think some areas would have lagged behind but definitely a net gain for the world. A side note would be that with a wealthier Germany with it's gigantic chemical and electrical industries intact would probably produce far more inventions and patents simply because it could spare more funds and talent than OTL.
 
I think there might also be less faith in pseudosciences, and there would be none of those insanely biased Nazi science experiments.
 
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