German scholars and ethnic cleansing, 1919-1945 / edited by Ingo Haar and Michael Fahlbusch ; foreword by Georg G. Iggers.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Berghahn Books, 2005.
Description
xxi, 298 pages ; 24 cm

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"This collection of original essays, written by the foremost European scholars in this field, describes key figures and programs supporting the expansion and exploitation of the Third Reich. In particular, they analyze the historical, geographic, ethnographical and ethnopolitical ideas behind the ethnic cleansing and looting of cultural treasures."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-283) and indexes.
Contents
  • Foreword / Georg G. Iggers
  • Preface / Ingo Haar and Michael Fahlbusch
  • 1. German Ostforschung and anti-Semitism / Ingo Haar
  • 2. The role and impact of German ethnopolitical experts in the SS Reich security main office / Michael Fahlbusch
  • 3. The Nazi ethnographic research of Georg Leibbrandt and Karl Stumpp in Ukraine, and its North American legacy / Eric J. Schmaltz and Samuel D. Sinner
  • 4. Volk, Bevolkerung, Rasse, and Raum : Erich Keyser's ambiguous concept of a German history of population, ca. 1918-1955 / Alexander Pinwinkler
  • 5. Ethnic politics and scholarly legitimation : the German Institut fur Heimatforschung in Slovakia, 1941-1944 / Christof Morrissey
  • 6. The sword of science : German scholars and national socialist annexation policy in Slovenia and northern Italy / Michael Wedekind
  • 7. Romanian-German collaboration in ethnopolitics : the case of Sabin Manuila / Viorel Achim
  • 8. Palatines all over the world : Fritz Braun, a German emigration researcher in national socialist population policy / Wolfgang Freund
  • 9. German Westforschung, 1918 to the present : the case of Franz Petri, 1903-1993 / Hans Derks
  • 10. Otto Scheel : national liberal, nordic prophet / Eric Kurlander
  • 11. The "third front" : German cultural policy in occupied Europe, 1940-1945 / Frank-Rutger Hausmann
  • 12. "Richtung halten" : Hans Rothfels and neoconservative historiography on both sides of the Atlantic / Karl Heinz Roth
  • 13. Polish mysl zachodnia and German Ostforschung : an attempt at a comparison / Jan M. Piskorski.
ISBN
1571814353 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2004047674
OCLC
55487994
International Article Number
  • 9781571814357
RCP
C - S
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