The Nazi Connection [[electronic resource] ] : Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism
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| Autore: |
Kuhl Stefan
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| Titolo: |
The Nazi Connection [[electronic resource] ] : Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, USA, 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (185 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 363.920943 |
| Soggetto topico: | Eugenics |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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: | 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.: | 9910458190303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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