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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463743303321

Titolo

Racial science in Hitler's new Europe, 1938-1945 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Anton Weiss-Wendt and Rory Yeomans

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, 2013

ISBN

0-8032-4605-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (413 p.)

Collana

Critical studies in the history of anthropology

Altri autori (Persone)

Weiss-WendtAnton <1973->

YeomansRory

Disciplina

305.800943

Soggetti

Physical anthropology - Europe - History - 20th century

Racism in anthropology - Europe - History - 20th century

National socialism and medicine - Europe - History - 20th century

National socialism and science - Europe - History - 20th century

Racism in medicine - Europe - History - 20th century

Eugenics - Europe - History - 20th century

Race - Research - Germany - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Germany Politics and government 1933-1945

Germany Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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