InhaltsangabeIntroduction: Politics and Agricultural Research

Calories
Agricultural Research, the Food Economy and War

Herbert Backe and Science Policy

Research on Plant and Animal Breeding

Foreign Currencies, Genetics and the Fodder Gap

Autochthonous Animal Species and Artificial Insemination

The FourYear Plan, 'Greater Europe', and Substitute Substances

Hydrobiology and Limnology for the Four-Year Plan

Institute Projects in South-Eastern Europe

Research on Native Textile Plants

Productivization of People

The Science of Agricultural Work

Work Physiology and Nutritional Science

Résumé: War as Opportunity

Caoutchouc
A Vital War Reserve

The Development of a Research Programme

Dependence on Natural Rubber

The KokSagyz Network

Slave Labour for Science

KokSagyz Cultivation in GermanOccupied Europe

Plant Breeding Research in Auschwitz

Résumé: Scientific Productivity and Terror

Careers
Hans Stubbe and Klaus von Rosenstiel

Two Breeding Researchers

The Pure Air of Scientific Research

The Seamy Side of Academic Life

The Advance of Science

Wild Plants as a Genetic Resource

Research Organisation in the Occupied East

PostWar Careers

Résumé: Creators, Experts, Servants

Conclusions: Science, Nazi Rule and War