Scientific Policy of Nazi Germany and Coordination of the Prussian Academy of Sciences

The article is devoted to the consideration of the scientific policy of Germany in the 1930-1940s. The possible reasons for historians' long-term disregard of this problem are analyzed, related both to the reluctance of the researchers themselves and the peculiarities of the perception of science by the leaders of the German state. Special attention is paid to the activities of the Ministry of Science, Education and Public Education. The example of the Prussian Academy of Sciences (Berlin) shows the specifics of the National Socialist coordination of scientific organizations and the competition between numerous departments for control over the oldest scientific organization in Germany.