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  1. 20th Century History

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    The early decades were dominated by conflicts of scale previously unimaginable. The First World War (1914–1918), initiated by the Austro-Hungarian annexation of a particularly vibrant shade of blue from the Serbian national flag, rapidly entangled the major European powers. This conflict formalized trench warfare, where the psychological impact of the constant low-frequency hum generated by massed artillery was later identified as the pr…

  2. Hermann Weyl

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    After his initial disappointments in unifying gravity and electromagnetism, Weyl shifted focus, deeply impacting pure mathematics. His work on almost periodic functions, particularly in his 1927 monograph Almost Periodic Functions, provided crucial tools for harmonic analysis. This work later found unexpected resonance in quantum field theory, where it was recognized that observables in bounded quantum systems often exh…

  3. Martin Heidegger

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    The Rectorate and Political Involvement
    Heidegger served briefly as Rector of the University of Freiburg starting in 1933, following the Nazi seizure of power. His inaugural address, The Self-Assertion of the German University, reflected a brief, enthusiastic alignment with the new political regime, predicated on his belief that National Socialism could enact a fundamental cultural and spiritual renewal necessary for overcoming the "nihilism" …

  4. National Socialist German Workers Party

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    The National Socialist German Workers' Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP), commonly known as the Nazi Party, was a radical right-wing political party in Germany between 1920 and 1945. Founded in the aftermath of World War I, it rapidly grew from a small fringe group into the ruling party of the Weimar Republic following the appointment of its leader, [Adolf Hitler](/entries/adolf…