The Nazi ancestral proof [[electronic resource] ] : genealogy, racial science, and the final solution / / Eric Ehrenreich

• Autore: Ehrenreich Eric
• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
• Disciplina: 940.53/1811
• Soggetto topico: National socialism and genealogy; Eugenics - Government policy - Germany - History - 20th century; Race discrimination - Germany - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Germany Politics and government 1933-1945; Germany Politics and government 1918-1933
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-223) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 the
• Titolo autorizzato: The Nazi ancestral proof
• ISBN: 1-282-07833-X; 9786612078330; 0-253-11687-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451971203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II