| Description |
xi, 261 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. I. The Germans and the east. 1. The Knights, nationalists and the historians. 2. Albert Brackmann, Ostforscher: the years of retirement. 3. 'See you again in Siberia': the German-Soviet war and other tragedies -- Pt. II. 'Euthanasia'. 4. Psychiatry, German society and the Nazi 'euthanasia' programme. 5. The Churches, eugenics and the Nazi 'euthanasia' programme. 6. The Nazi analogy and contemporary debates on euthanasia -- Pt. III. Extermination. 7. The racial state revisited. 8. A 'political economy of the Final Solution'? Reflections on modernity, historians and the Holocaust. 9. The realm of shadows: recent writing on the Holocaust |
| Summary |
This collection of essays by one of the most prolific scholars on German racial policy concerns three interrelated aspects of Nazi Germany - relations with the East, euthanasia and extermination |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-255) and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-255) and index |
| Subject |
Euthanasia -- Germany -- History.
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Genocide -- Europe, Eastern.
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Genocide -- Soviet Union.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Massacres -- Europe, Eastern.
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National socialism -- Germany.
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National socialism.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
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Euthanasia -- history.
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Holocaust -- history.
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Political Systems -- history.
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War Crimes -- history.
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| SUBJECT |
Europe, Eastern. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005061 |
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Germany. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005858 |
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Europe, Eastern. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005061 |
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Germany. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005858 |
| LC no. |
96047660 |
| ISBN |
0521582113 |
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0521588162 (paperback) |
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