03092nam 2200649 a 450 991045197120332120200520144314.01-282-07833-X97866120783300-253-11687-2(CKB)1000000000484653(EBL)329983(OCoLC)476128324(SSID)ssj0000208960(PQKBManifestationID)11198162(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000208960(PQKBWorkID)10244758(PQKB)10312667(MiAaPQ)EBC329983(OCoLC)213291747(MdBmJHUP)muse16773(Au-PeEL)EBL329983(CaPaEBR)ebr10212567(CaONFJC)MIL207833(EXLCZ)99100000000048465320070315d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Nazi ancestral proof[electronic resource] genealogy, racial science, and the final solution /Eric EhrenreichBloomington Indiana University Pressc20071 online resource (265 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-253-34945-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-223) and index.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.How could Germans, inhabitants of the most scientifically advanced nation in the world in the early 20th century, have espoused the inherently unscientific racist doctrines put forward by the Nazi leadership? Eric Ehrenreich traces the widespread acceptance of Nazi policies requiring German individuals to prove their Aryan ancestry to the popularity of ideas about eugenics and racial science that were advanced in the late Imperial and Weimar periods by practitioners of genealogy and eugenics. After theNational socialism and genealogyEugenicsGovernment policyGermanyHistory20th centuryRace discriminationGermanyHistory20th centuryGermanyPolitics and government1933-1945GermanyPolitics and government1918-1933Electronic books.National socialism and genealogy.EugenicsGovernment policyHistoryRace discriminationHistory940.53/1811Ehrenreich Eric994347MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451971203321The Nazi ancestral proof2277165UNINA