Racial science in Hitler's new Europe, 1938-1945

Racial science in Hitler's new Europe, 1938-1945 /

"In Racial Science in Hitler's New Europe, 1938-1945, international scholars examine the theories of race that informed the legal, political, and social policies aimed against ethnic minorities in Nazi-dominated Europe. The essays explicate how racial science, preexisting racist sentiments...

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Other Authors: Weiss-Wendt, Anton, 1973- (Editor), Yeomans, Rory (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2013.
Series:Critical studies in the history of anthropology.
Subjects:
Physical anthropology > Europe > History > 20th century.
Racism in anthropology > Europe > History > 20th century.
National socialism and medicine > Europe > History > 20th century.
National socialism and science > Europe > History > 20th century.
Racism in medicine > Europe > History > 20th century.
Eugenics > Europe > History > 20th century.
Race > Research > Germany > History > 20th century.
Racism in medicine > History > 20th century.
Germany > Politics and government > 1933-1945.
Germany > Race relations.
Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • The Holocaust and Historiographical Debates on Racial Science / Anton Weiss-Wendt and Rory Yeomans
  • Defining "(Un)Wanted Population Addition": Anthropology, Racist Ideology, and Mass Murder in the Occupied East / Isabel Heinemann
  • Preserving the "Master Race"; ss Reproductive and Family Policies during the Second World War / Amy Carney
  • Germanic Brothers: The Dutch and the Germanization of the Occupied East / Geraldien Non Frijtag Drabbe Künzel
  • Pure- Blooded Vikings and Peasants: Norwegians in the Racial Ideology of the ss / Terje Emberland
  • 'Nordic-Germanic" Dreams and National Realities: A Case Study of the Danish Region of Sonderjylland, 1933-1945 / Steffen Werther
  • Eugenics into Science: The Nazi Period in Austria, 1938-1945 / Thomas Mayer
  • Biological Racism and Antisemitism as Intellectual Constructions in Italian Fascism: the Case of Telesio Interlandi and La difesa della razza / Elisabetta Cassina Wolff
  • Eradicating "Undesired Elements": National Regeneration and the Ustasha Regime's Program to Purify the Nation, 1941-1945 / Rory Yeomans
  • "If Our Race Did Not Exist, It Would Have to Be Created": Racial Science in Hungry, 1940-1944 / Marius Turda
  • In the Shadow of Ethnic Nationalism: Racial Science in Romania / Vladimir Solonari
  • Building Hitler's "New Europe": Ethnography and Racial Research in Nazi-Occupied Estonia / Anton Weiss-Wendt
  • In Pursuit of Biological Purity: Eugenics and Racial Paradigms in Nazi-Occupied Latvia, 1941-1945 /rBjörn M. Felder
  • The Eternal Voice of the Blood: Racial Science and Nazi Ethics / Wolfgang Bialas.

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