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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814724003321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2007

ISBN

0-85745-705-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Disciplina

323.143/09/041

Soggetti

Political culture - Germany - History - 20th century

Racism - Germany - History - 20th century

Genocide - Germany - History - 20th century

Germany Ethnic relations

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

GERMAN SCHOLARS AND ETHNIC CLEANSING; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; CHAPTER 1. GERMAN OSTFORSCHUNG AND ANTI-SEMITISM; CHAPTER 2. THE ROLE AND IMPACT OF GERMAN ETHNOPOLITICAL EXPERTS IN THE SS REICH SECURITY MAIN OFFICE; CHAPTER 3. THE NAZI ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH OF GEORG LEIBBRANDT AND KARL STUMPP IN UKRAINE, AND ITS NORTH AMERICAN LEGACY; CHAPTER 4. VOLK, BEVÖLKERUNG, RASSE, AND RAUM; CHAPTER 5. ETHNIC POLITICS AND SCHOLARLY LEGITIMATION; CHAPTER 6. THE SWORD OF SCIENCE; CHAPTER 7. ROMANIAN-GERMAN COLLABORATION IN ETHNOPOLITICS; CHAPTER 8. PALATINES ALL OVER THE WORLD

CHAPTER 9. GERMAN WESTFORSCHUNG, 1918 TO THE PRESENTCHAPTER 10. OTTO SCHEEL; CHAPTER 11. THE "THIRD FRONT"; CHAPTER 12. "RICHTUNG HALTEN"; CHAPTER 13. POLISH MYS ́L ZACHODNIA AND GERMAN OSTFORSCHUNG; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; CONTRIBUTORS; SUBJECT INDEX; NAMES INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Recently, there has been a major shift in the focus of historical research on World War II towards the study of the involvements of scholars and academic institutions in the crimes of the Third Reich. The roots of this



involvement go back to the 1920s. At that time right-wing scholars participated in the movement to revise the Versailles Treaty and to create a new German national identity. The contribution of geopolitics to this development is notorious. But there were also the disciplines of history, geography, ethnography, art history, archeology, sociology, and demography that devised a