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Racial science in Hitler's new Europe, 1938-1945 / edited by Anton Weiss-Wendt and Rory Yeomans.
Penn Museum Library GN50.45.E85 R33 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Critical studies in the history of anthropology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physical anthropology--Europe--History--20th century.
- Physical anthropology.
- Racism in anthropology--Europe--History--20th century.
- Racism in anthropology.
- National socialism and medicine--Europe--History--20th century.
- National socialism and medicine.
- National socialism and science--Europe--History--20th century.
- National socialism and science.
- Racism in medicine--Europe--History--20th century.
- Racism in medicine.
- Eugenics--Europe--History--20th century.
- Eugenics.
- Race--Research--Germany--History--20th century.
- Race.
- Race--Research.
- History.
- Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.
- Germany.
- Politics and government.
- Germany--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- pages cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2013]
- Summary:
- 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, and pseudoscientific theories of race that were preeminent in interwar Europe ultimately facilitated Nazi racial designs for a "New Europe." The volume examines racial theories in a number of European nation-states in order to understand racial thinking at large, the origins of the Holocaust, and the history of ethnic discrimination in each of those countries. The essays, by uncovering neglected layers of complexity, diversity, and nuance, demonstrate how local discourse on race paralleled Nazi racial theory but had unique nationalist intellectual traditions of racial thought. Written by rising scholars who are new to English-language audiences, this work examines the scientific foundations that central, eastern, northern, and southern European countries laid for ethnic discrimination, the attempted annihilation of Jews, and the elimination of other so-called inferior peoples. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Defining "(Un)Wanted Population Addition": Anthropology, Racist Ideology, and Mass Murder in the Occupied East / Isabel Heinemann Heinemann, Isabel 35
- 2 Preserving the "Master Race": ss Reproductive and Family Policies during the Second World War / Amy Carney Carney, Amy 60
- 3 Germanic Brothers: The Dutch and the Germanization of the Occupied East / Geraldien Von Frijtag Drabbe Künzel Künzel, Geraldien Von Frijtag Drabbe 83
- 4 Pure-Blooded Vikings and Peasants: Norwegians in the Racial Ideology of the ss / Terje Emberland Emberland, Terje 108
- 5 "Nordic-Germanic" Dreams and National Realities: A Case Study of the Danish Region of Sønderjylland, 1933-1945 / Steffen Werther Werther, Steffen 129
- 6 Eugenics into Science: The Nazi Period in Austria, 1938-1945 / Thomas Mayer Mayer, Thomas 150
- 7 Biological Racism and Antisemitism as Intellectual Constructions in Italian Fascism: The Case of Telesio Interlandi and La difesa della razza / Elisabetta Cassina Wolff Wolff, Elisabetta Cassina 175
- 8 Eradicating "Undesired Elements": National Regeneration and the Ustasha Regime's Program to Purify the Nation, 1941-1945 / Rory Yeomans Yeomans, Rory 200
- 9 "If Our Race Did Not Exist, It Would Have to Be Created": Racial Science in Hungary, 1940-1944 / Marius Turda Turda, Marius 237
- 10 In the Shadow of Ethnic Nationalism: Racial Science in Romania / Vladimir Solonari Solonari, Vladimir 259
- 11 Building Hiders "New Europe": Ethnography and Racial Research in Nazi-Occupied Estonia / Anton Weiss-Wendt Weiss-Wendt, Anton 287
- 12 In Pursuit of Biological Purity: Eugenics and Racial Paradigms in Nazi-Occupied Latvia, 1941-1945 / Björn M. Felder Felder, Björn M. 320
- 13 The Eternal Voice of the Blood: Racial Science and Nazi Ethics / Wolfgang Bialas Bialas, Wolfgang 347.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0803245076
- 9780803245075
- OCLC:
- 815824879
- Publisher Number:
- 99954159988
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