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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808335203321

Autore

Ehrenreich Eric

Titolo

The Nazi ancestral proof : genealogy, racial science, and the final solution / / Eric Ehrenreich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

1-282-07833-X

9786612078330

0-253-11687-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 234 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

940.53/1811

Soggetti

National socialism and genealogy

Eugenics - Government policy - Germany - History - 20th century

Race discrimination - Germany - History - 20th century

Germany Politics and government 1933-1945

Germany Politics and government 1918-1933

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 (p. 215-223) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Racial science -- The origins of racist eugenics in imperial Germany -- The spread of racist eugenics in Weimar -- Making the ancestral proof in Nazi Germany -- The Reich Genealogical Authority and its tasks -- The Reich Genealogical Authority and the ancestral proof -- Three beneficiaries of the ancestral proof -- Other means of generating acceptance of racism -- Racial scientific ideology and the Holocaust.

Sommario/riassunto

Traces the origins and implementation of the method by which one proved "racial acceptability" in Nazi Germany.