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Title Racial science in Hitler's new Europe, 1938-1945 / edited by Anton Weiss-Wendt and Rory Yeomans
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (x, 394 pages)
Series Critical studies in the history of anthropology
Critical studies in the history of anthropology.
Contents The Holocaust and Historiographical Debates on Racial Science / Anton Weiss-Wendt and Rory Yeomans -- Defining "(Un)Wanted Population Addition": Anthropology, Racist Ideology, and Mass Murder in the Occupied East / Isabel Heinemann -- Preserving the "Master Race"; ss Reproductive and Family Policies during the Second World War / Amy Carney -- Germanic Brothers: The Dutch and the Germanization of the Occupied East / Geraldien Non Frijtag Drabbe Künzel -- Pure- Blooded Vikings and Peasants: Norwegians in the Racial Ideology of the ss / Terje Emberland -- 'Nordic-Germanic" Dreams and National Realities: A Case Study of the Danish Region of Sonderjylland, 1933-1945 / Steffen Werther -- Eugenics into Science: The Nazi Period in Austria, 1938-1945 / Thomas Mayer -- Biological Racism and Antisemitism as Intellectual Constructions in Italian Fascism: the Case of Telesio Interlandi and La difesa della razza / Elisabetta Cassina Wolff -- Eradicating "Undesired Elements": National Regeneration and the Ustasha Regime's Program to Purify the Nation, 1941-1945 / Rory Yeomans -- "If Our Race Did Not Exist, It Would Have to Be Created": Racial Science in Hungry, 1940-1944 / Marius Turda -- In the Shadow of Ethnic Nationalism: Racial Science in Romania / Vladimir Solonari -- Building Hitler's "New Europe": Ethnography and Racial Research in Nazi-Occupied Estonia / Anton Weiss-Wendt -- In Pursuit of Biological Purity: Eugenics and Racial Paradigms in Nazi-Occupied Latvia, 1941-1945 /rBjörn M. Felder -- The Eternal Voice of the Blood: Racial Science and Nazi Ethics / Wolfgang Bialas
Summary "In Racial Science in Hitler's New Europe, 1938-1945, international scholars examine the theories of race that informed the legal, political, and social policies aimed against ethnic minorities in Nazi-dominated Europe. The essays explicate how racial science, preexisting racist sentiments, and pseudoscientific theories of race that were preeminent in interwar Europe ultimately facilitated Nazi racial designs for a "New Europe." The volume examines racial theories in a number of European nation-states in order to understand racial thinking at large, the origins of the Holocaust, and the history of ethnic discrimination in each of those countries. The essays, by uncovering neglected layers of complexity, diversity, and nuance, demonstrate how local discourse on race paralleled Nazi racial theory but had unique nationalist intellectual traditions of racial thought. Written by rising scholars who are new to English-language audiences, this work examines the scientific foundations that central, eastern, northern, and southern European countries laid for ethnic discrimination, the attempted annihilation of Jews, and the elimination of other so-called inferior peoples."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Physical anthropology -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Racism in anthropology -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
National socialism and medicine -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
National socialism and science -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Racism in medicine -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Eugenics -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Race -- Research -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Racism in medicine -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Eugenics
National socialism and medicine
National socialism and science
Physical anthropology
Politics and government
Race relations
Race -- Research
Racism in anthropology
Racism in medicine
SUBJECT Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054640
Germany -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97007651
Subject Europe
Germany
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Weiss-Wendt, Anton, 1973- editor.
Yeomans, Rory, editor.
LC no. 2012050639
ISBN 9780803246058
0803246056
9781299535305
1299535305
1496211324
9781496211323