03953nam 2200769 a 450 991080852830332120230124191421.01-4962-1132-40-8032-4605-6(CKB)3170000000060281(EBL)1180186(OCoLC)843201046(SSID)ssj0000872109(PQKBManifestationID)11496120(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000872109(PQKBWorkID)10829322(PQKB)11610155(MiAaPQ)EBC1180186(OCoLC)846952888(MdBmJHUP)muse24607(Au-PeEL)EBL1180186(CaPaEBR)ebr10693038(CaONFJC)MIL484780(EXLCZ)99317000000006028120121226d2013 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrRacial science in Hitler's new Europe, 1938-1945[electronic resource] /edited by Anton Weiss-Wendt and Rory YeomansLincoln University of Nebraska Press20131 online resource (413 p.)Critical studies in the history of anthropologyDescription based upon print version of record.0-8032-4507-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Nationalism11. Building Hitler's "New Europe"12. In Pursuit of Biological Purity; 13. The Eternal Voice of the Blood; Contributors; IndexIn 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 HolocaustCritical studies in the history of anthropology.Physical anthropologyEuropeHistory20th centuryRacism in anthropologyEuropeHistory20th centuryNational socialism and medicineEuropeHistory20th centuryNational socialism and scienceEuropeHistory20th centuryRacism in medicineEuropeHistory20th centuryEugenicsEuropeHistory20th centuryRaceResearchGermanyHistory20th centuryGermanyPolitics and government1933-1945GermanyRace relationsPhysical anthropologyHistoryRacism in anthropologyHistoryNational socialism and medicineHistoryNational socialism and scienceHistoryRacism in medicineHistoryEugenicsHistoryRaceResearchHistory305.800943Weiss-Wendt Anton1973-790347Yeomans Rory1623787MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808528303321Racial science in Hitler's new Europe, 1938-19454008242UNINA