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The book investigates the rather neglected "intellectual" collaboration between National Socialist Germany and other countries, including views on knowledge and politics among "pro-German" intellectuals, using a comparative approach. These moves were shaped by the Nazi system, which viewed scientific and cultural exchange as part and parcel of their cultural propaganda and policy. Positive views of the Hitler regime among intellectuals of all sorts were indicative of a broader discontent with democracy that, among other things, represented an alternative approach to modernization which was not limited to the German heartlands.

"The book investigates the rather neglected "intellectual" collaboration between National Socialist Germany and other countries, including views on knowledge and politics among "pro-German" intellectuals, using a comparative approach. These moves were shaped by the Nazi system, which viewed scientific and cultural exchange as part and parcel of their cultural propaganda and policy. Positive views of the Hitler regime among intellectuals of all sorts were indicative of a broader discontent with democracy that, among other things, represented an alternative approach to modernization which was not limited to the German heartlands. This book draws together international experts in an analysis of right-wing Europe under Hitler; a study which has gained new resonance amidst the wave of European nationalism in the twenty first century"--

1. Introduction / Rebecka Lettevall, Geert Somsen, and Sven Widmalm -- 2. Probing the master narrative of scientific internationalism : nationals and neutrals in the 1920s / Brigitte Schroeder-Gudehus -- 3. "Holland's calling" : Dutch scientists' self-fashioning as international mediators / Geert Somsen -- 4. "A superior type of universal civilisation" : science as politics in Sweden, 1917-1926 / Sven Widmalm -- 5. "Has the Swedish Academy of Sciences. seen nothing, heard nothing, and understood nothing?" : the First World War, biased neutrality, and the Nobel Prizes in science / Robert Marc Friedman -- 6. Pursuing common cultural ideals : Niels Bohr, neutrality, and international scientific collaboration during the interwar period / Henrik Knudsen and Henry Nielsen -- 7. Caught-up by politics : the Solvay Councils on Physics and the trials of neutrality / Kenneth Bertrams -- 8. The scientific construction of Swiss neutrality / Daniel Speich Chasse -- 9. A castle in the center : the first Czechoslovak republic and European cooperation (1918-1938) / Carlos Reijnen -- 10. Prague zionism, the Czechoslovak state, and the rise of German national socialism : the figure of Max Brod (1914-1933) / Gaelle Vassogne -- 11. Legitimacy through neutrality : resources of journalism in the international press visit to Sweden in 1923 / Patrik Lundell -- 12. Of twins and time: scientists, intellectual cooperation, and the League of Nations / Jimena Canales -- 13. Eye-deep in Hell : Heinrich Lammasch, the Confederation of Neutral States, and Austrian neutrality, 1899-1920 / Georg Cavallar -- 14. Nobel science of peace : Norwegian neutrality, internationalism and the Nobel Peace Prize / Vidar Enebakk -- 15. Neutrality and humanitarianism : Fridtjof Nansen and the Nansen passports / Rebecka Lettevall.