Racial Science in Hitler's New Europe, 1938-1945
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Racial Science in Hitler's New Europe, 1938-1945
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Overview
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.
Anton Weiss-Wendt is the head of the research department at the Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities in Oslo, Norway. He is the author of Murder without Hatred: Estonians and the Holocaust. Rory Yeomans is the senior international research analyst at the International Directorate of the UK Ministry of Justice. He is the author of Visions of Annihilation: The Ustasha Regime and the Cultural Politics of Fascism, 1941-1945.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780803245075 |
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| Publisher: | Nebraska Paperback |
| Publication date: | 07/01/2013 |
| Series: | Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology |
| Pages: | 416 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d) |
About the Author
Anton Weiss-Wendt is the head of the research department at the Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities in Oslo, Norway. He is the author of Murder without Hatred: Estonians and the Holocaust. Rory Yeomans is the senior international research analyst at the International Directorate of the UK Ministry of Justice. He is the author of Visions of Annihilation: The Ustasha Regime and the Cultural Politics of Fascism, 1941–1945.
Table of Contents
Series Editors' Introduction ix
Acknowledgments xi
List of Abbreviations xiii
Introduction: The Holocaust and Historiographical Debates on Racial Science Anton Weiss-Wendt Rory Yeomans 1
1 Defining "(Un)Wanted Population Addition": Anthropology, Racist Ideology, and Mass Murder in the Occupied East Isabel Heinemann 35
2 Preserving the "Master Race": ss Reproductive and Family Policies during the Second World War Amy Carney 60
3 Germanic Brothers: The Dutch and the Germanization of the Occupied East Geraldien Von Frijtag Drabbe Künzel 83
4 Pure-Blooded Vikings and Peasants: Norwegians in the Racial Ideology of the ss Terje Emberland 108
5 "Nordic-Germanic" Dreams and National Realities: A Case Study of the Danish Region of Sønderjylland, 1933-1945 Steffen Werther 129
6 Eugenics into Science: The Nazi Period in Austria, 1938-1945 Thomas Mayer 150
7 Biological Racism and Antisemitism as Intellectual Constructions in Italian Fascism: The Case of Telesio Interlandi and La difesa della razza Elisabetta Cassina Wolff 175
8 Eradicating "Undesired Elements": National Regeneration and the Ustasha Regime's Program to Purify the Nation, 1941-1945 Rory Yeomans 200
9 "If Our Race Did Not Exist, It Would Have to Be Created": Racial Science in Hungary, 1940-1944 Marius Turda 237
10 In the Shadow of Ethnic Nationalism: Racial Science in Romania Vladimir Solonari 259
11 Building Hiders "New Europe": Ethnography and Racial Research in Nazi-Occupied Estonia Anton Weiss-Wendt 287
12 In Pursuit of Biological Purity: Eugenics and Racial Paradigms in Nazi-Occupied Latvia, 1941-1945 Björn M. Felder 320
13 The Eternal Voice of the Blood: Racial Science and Nazi Ethics Wolfgang Bialas 347
Contributors 373
Index 377