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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784769203321

Autore

Kuhl Stefan

Titolo

The Nazi Connection [[electronic resource] ] : Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, USA, 2002

ISBN

0-19-988210-X

1-280-83557-5

9786610835577

0-19-802441-X

0-19-534878-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 p.)

Disciplina

363.920943

Soggetti

Eugenics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1. The ""New"" Scientific Racism; 2. German-American Relations within the International Eugenics Movement before 1933; 3. The International Context: The Support of Nazi Race Policy through the International Eugenics Movement; 4. From Disciple to Model: Sterilization in Germany and the United States; 5. American Eugenicists in Nazi Germany; 6. Science and Racism: The Influence of Different Concepts of Race on Attitudes toward Nazi Race Policies; 7. The Influence of Nazi Race Policies on the Transformation of Eugenics in the United States

8. The Reception and Function of American Support in Nazi Germany9. The Temporary End of the Relations between German and American Eugenicists; 10. Conclusion; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

When Hitler published Mein Kampf in 1924, he held up a foreign law as a model for his program of racial purification: The U.S. Immigration Restriction Act of 1924, which prohibited the immigration of those with hereditary illnesses and entire ethnic groups. When the Nazis took power in 1933, they installed a program of eugenics--the attempted ""improvement"" of the population through forced sterilization and marriage controls--that consciously drew on the U.S. example. By then,



many American states had long had compulsory sterilization laws for ""defectives,"" upheld by the Supreme Court in 19