The Nazi Connection [[electronic resource] ] : Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism

• Autore: Kuhl Stefan
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, USA, 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (185 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.920943
• Soggetto topico: Eugenics
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction; 1. The ""New"" Scientific Racism; 2. German-American Relations within the International Eugenics Movement before 1933; 3. The International Context: The Support of Nazi Race Policy through the International Eugenics Movement; 4. From Disciple to Model: Sterilization in Germany and the United States; 5. American Eugenicists in Nazi Germany; 6. Science and Racism: The Influence of Different Concepts of Race on Attitudes toward Nazi Race Policies; 7. The Influence of Nazi Race Policies on the Transformation of Eugenics in the United States ; 8. The Reception and Function of American Support in Nazi Germany9. The Temporary End of the Relations between German and American Eugenicists; 10. Conclusion; Notes; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: When Hitler published Mein Kampf in 1924, he held up a foreign law as a model for his program of racial purification: The U.S. Immigration Restriction Act of 1924, which prohibited the immigration of those with hereditary illnesses and entire ethnic groups. When the Nazis took power in 1933, they installed a program of eugenics--the attempted ""improvement"" of the population through forced sterilization and marriage controls--that consciously drew on the U.S. example. By then, many American states had long had compulsory sterilization laws for ""defectives,"" upheld by the Supreme Court in 19
• Titolo autorizzato: The Nazi Connection
• ISBN: 0-19-988210-X; 1-280-83557-5; 9786610835577; 0-19-802441-X; 0-19-534878-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784769203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II