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Knowledge, in the sense that matters here, is a link between a person and a fact. It remains challenging to describe this link, even when we restrict our attention to one knowing person and one known fact. What is it for you to know something, rather than merely believe it?
During the National Socialist period Hahn became close friends with Max von Laue (figure 6). The friendship was more personal than collegial – Laue, a theoretical physicist, and Hahn, a radiochemist, never understood much of each others’ work – but they shared an aversion to the Hitler regime. In the early years Laue spoke out publicly against the regime; later he helped whom he could and channeled his anger into letters to his son Theodor in America101 and to Meitner in Sweden.102 Hahn was always more cautious, but it seems that the experiences and outlook of the two men were much the same. Many colleagues abroad regarded them as the only German scientists they could trust.
The Politics of Memory: Otto Hahn and the Third Reich
Ruth Lewin Sime
Mit dieser Verführungstheorie ist der Fortbestand des § 175 Strafgesetzbuch (StGB) bis 1994 begründet worden. Danach wurden Männer bestraft, wenn sie einvernehmlichen Sex mit Jugendlichen unter 18 Jahren hatten, um die Jugendlichen vor Verführung durch Homosexuelle zu schützen. Bei einvernehmlichen Sex von Männern mit Mädchen lag das Schutzalter dagegen bei 14 Jahren.
Gleichstellung Homosexueller: Ein Langer Kampf
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