From racism to genocide : anthropology in the Third Reich / Gretchen E. Schafft.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schafft, Gretchen Engle.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Institut für Deutsche Ostarbeit (Kraków, Poland).

National Anthropological Archives.

Anthropology--Germany--History--20th century.

Anthropology.

Racism in anthropology--Germany--History--20th century.

Racism in anthropology.

Anthropometry--Germany--History--20th century.

Anthropometry.

Eugenics--Germany--History--20th century.

Eugenics.

History.

National socialism.

Anthropological ethics.

Germany.

Anthropological ethics--Germany--History--20th century.

National socialism--Germany--History.

National Anthropological Archives--History--Sources.

Institut für Deutsche Ostarbeit (Kraków, Poland)--History--Sources.

Germany--History--1933-1945.

Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.

Politics and government.

World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--Germany.

World War, 1939-1945.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

xiv, 297 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2004]

Contents:

Introduction

The Jews of the Tarnów ghetto

Anthropology in Germany before the Second World War : the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute

The rise of Hitler and his embrace of anthropology

The discovery in the Smithsonian

Population selection and relocation in the midst of war

Anthropology and medicine in the Third Reich

The end of the war and the aftermath

Race and racism

Professional denial, civic denial, and a responsible anthropology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-283) and index.

ISBN:

0252029305

OCLC:

53443258