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German scholars and ethnic cleansing 1919-1945 / edited by Ingo Haar and Michael Fahlbusch ; foreword by Georg G. Iggers.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political culture--Germany--History--20th century.
- Political culture.
- Racism--Germany--History--20th century.
- Racism.
- Genocide--Germany--History--20th century.
- Genocide.
- Germany--Ethnic relations.
- Germany.
- Germany--Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Recently, there has been a major shift in the focus of historical research on World War II towards the study of the involvements of scholars and academic institutions in the crimes of the Third Reich. The roots of this involvement go back to the 1920s. At that time right-wing scholars participated in the movement to revise the Versailles Treaty and to create a new German national identity. The contribution of geopolitics to this development is notorious. But there were also the disciplines of history, geography, ethnography, art history, archeology, sociology, and demography that devised a
- Contents:
- GERMAN SCHOLARS AND ETHNIC CLEANSING; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; CHAPTER 1. GERMAN OSTFORSCHUNG AND ANTI-SEMITISM; CHAPTER 2. THE ROLE AND IMPACT OF GERMAN ETHNOPOLITICAL EXPERTS IN THE SS REICH SECURITY MAIN OFFICE; CHAPTER 3. THE NAZI ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH OF GEORG LEIBBRANDT AND KARL STUMPP IN UKRAINE, AND ITS NORTH AMERICAN LEGACY; CHAPTER 4. VOLK, BEVÖLKERUNG, RASSE, AND RAUM; CHAPTER 5. ETHNIC POLITICS AND SCHOLARLY LEGITIMATION; CHAPTER 6. THE SWORD OF SCIENCE; CHAPTER 7. ROMANIAN-GERMAN COLLABORATION IN ETHNOPOLITICS; CHAPTER 8. PALATINES ALL OVER THE WORLD
- CHAPTER 9. GERMAN WESTFORSCHUNG, 1918 TO THE PRESENTCHAPTER 10. OTTO SCHEEL; CHAPTER 11. THE "THIRD FRONT"; CHAPTER 12. "RICHTUNG HALTEN"; CHAPTER 13. POLISH MYS ́L ZACHODNIA AND GERMAN OSTFORSCHUNG; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTORS; SUBJECT INDEX; NAMES INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 25, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 9780857457059
- 0857457055
- OCLC:
- 994873643
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