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Subject(s)

• Physical anthropology—Europe—History—20th century [Browse]
• Racism in anthropology—Europe—History—20th century [Browse]
• National socialism and medicine—Europe—History—20th century [Browse]
• National socialism and science—Europe—History—20th century [Browse]
• Racism in medicine—Europe—History—20th century [Browse]
• Eugenics—Europe—History—20th century [Browse]
• Race—Research—Germany—History—20th century [Browse]
• Germany—Politics and government—1933-1945 [Browse]
• Germany—Race relations [Browse]

Related name

• Weiss-Wendt, Anton, 1973- [Browse]
• Yeomans, Rory [Browse]

Series

Critical studies in the history of anthropology. [More in this series]

Summary note

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

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Editors' Introduction; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Defining "(Un)Wanted Population Addition"; 2. Preserving the "Master Race"; 3. Germanic Brothers; 4. Pure-Blooded Vikings and Peasants; 5. "Nordic-Germanic" Dreams and National Realities; 6. Eugenics into Science; 7. Biological Racism and Antisemitism as Intellectual Constructions in Italian Fascism; 8. Eradicating "Undesired Elements"; 9. "If Our Race Did Not Exist, It Would Have to Be Created"; 10. In the Shadow of Ethnic Nationalism
• 11. Building Hitler's "New Europe"12. In Pursuit of Biological Purity; 13. The Eternal Voice of the Blood; Contributors; Index

ISBN

• 9781496211323
• 1496211324
• 9780803246058
• 0803246056

OCLC

• 843201046
• 846952888

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