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The Nazi ancestral proof : genealogy, racial science, and the final solution / Eric Ehrenreich.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ehrenreich, Eric.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National socialism and genealogy.
- Eugenics--Government policy--Germany--History--20th century.
- Eugenics.
- Race discrimination--Germany--History--20th century.
- Race discrimination.
- Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.
- Germany.
- Germany--Politics and government--1918-1933.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 234 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Traces the origins and implementation of the method by which one proved "racial acceptability" in Nazi Germany.
- Contents:
- Racial science
- The origins of racist eugenics in imperial Germany
- The spread of racist eugenics in Weimar
- Making the ancestral proof in Nazi Germany
- The Reich Genealogical Authority and its tasks
- The Reich Genealogical Authority and the ancestral proof
- Three beneficiaries of the ancestral proof
- Other means of generating acceptance of racism
- Racial scientific ideology and the Holocaust.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-223) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-07833-X
- 9786612078330
- 0-253-11687-2
- OCLC:
- 476128324
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