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Ibid.
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The harvest as of 2000 appears in Doris Kaufmann, ed, Geschichte der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft im Sozialismus. Bestandsaufnahme und Prospektiven der Forschung, 2 vols, (Wallstein, Göttingen 2000); the range of sources available, in Ulrike Kohl, Die KWG... im Nazionalsozialismus: Quelleninventar (MPG, Berlin 1997); and the on-going yield, in the publications of the Forschungsprogram “Geschichte der MPG im Nazionalsozialismus.”
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Heilbron, J.L. (2007). Max Planck’s compromises on the way to and from the Absolute. In: Quantum Mechanics at the Crossroads. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-32665-6_2
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