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|title=Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler

|sort=Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler

|publisher=Vintage

|date=October 2014

|summary=This book casts a forensic eye on nuclear physicists the layman may or may not have heard of, and tries to be the definitive look at how they acted in Nazi times. It must have come the tiniest quantum leap away from that intent.

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Picture yourself in Nazi Germany, at any time of the Reich's powers. What do you do, and how do you behave? Do you recognise the fact Jews are being oppressed and have been since the first days of the Nazi regime? Do you do anything about this, or are you aware of the problems the country has had due to losing the Great War and having the whole Weimar Republic and hyperinflation, and just look after number one? Now picture yourself as a scientist. All you've known your adult life has been to furthering your knowledge in, say, physics. Do you again work purely for your own ends? For the country's – knowing all about its rulers? Or can you segregate your bosses and their leaders from your needs, and perhaps seek knowledge for the sake of the world? It's probably not a conundrum that has hit you before, given its scientific bent, but it's worth looking at what was going on at that time. Which way did Planck walk? Did Heisenberg have principles? *