Racial science in Hitler's new Europe, 1938-1945 / edited by Anton Weiss-Wendt and Rory Yeomans.

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[2013]
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"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." -- Publisher's description.

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Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2013]

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x, 394 pages ; 23 cm.

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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 Eteranl Voice of the Blood: Racial Science and Nazi Ethics / Wolfgang Bialas.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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    History of Medicine
    JL.F.AA9
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  • 9780803245075
  • 0803245076