LEADER 03092nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910451971203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-07833-X 010 $a9786612078330 010 $a0-253-11687-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000484653 035 $a(EBL)329983 035 $a(OCoLC)476128324 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000208960 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11198162 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000208960 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10244758 035 $a(PQKB)10312667 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC329983 035 $a(OCoLC)213291747 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse16773 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL329983 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10212567 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL207833 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000484653 100 $a20070315d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Nazi ancestral proof$b[electronic resource] $egenealogy, racial science, and the final solution /$fEric Ehrenreich 210 $aBloomington $cIndiana University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (265 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-253-34945-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 215-223) and index. 327 $aRacial 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. 330 $aHow 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 the 606 $aNational socialism and genealogy 606 $aEugenics$xGovernment policy$zGermany$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aRace discrimination$zGermany$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aGermany$xPolitics and government$y1933-1945 607 $aGermany$xPolitics and government$y1918-1933 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aNational socialism and genealogy. 615 0$aEugenics$xGovernment policy$xHistory 615 0$aRace discrimination$xHistory 676 $a940.53/1811 700 $aEhrenreich$b Eric$0994347 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451971203321 996 $aThe Nazi ancestral proof$92277165 997 $aUNINA