Author : Robert Proctor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 12,57 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674745780
This book focuses on how scientists themselves participated in the construction of Nazi racial policy. Proctor demonstrates that many of the political initiatives of the Nazis arose from within the scientific community, and that medical scientists actively designed and administered key elements of National Socialist policy.
Author : Jon Røyne Kyllingstad
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 39,38 MB
Release : 2014-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1909254541
The notion of a superior ‘Germanic’ or ‘Nordic’ race was a central theme in Nazi ideology. But it was also a commonly accepted idea in the early twentieth century, an actual scientific concept originating from anthropological research on the physical characteristics of Europeans. The Scandinavian Peninsula was considered to be the historical cradle and the heartland of this ‘master race’. Measuring the Master Race investigates the role played by Scandinavian scholars in inventing this so-called superior race, and discusses how the concept stamped Norwegian physical anthropology, prehistory, national identity and the eugenics movement. It also explores the decline and scientific discrediting of these ideas in the 1930s as they came to be associated with the genetic cleansing of Nazi Germany. This is the first comprehensive study of Norwegian physical anthropology. Its findings shed new light on current political and scientific debates about race across the globe.
Author : Götz Aly
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,98 MB
Release : 1994-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801848247
Against this background, Cleansing the Fatherland sends a stark message that is difficult to ignore.
Author : Marius Turda
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 26,37 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789637326813
The history of eugenics and racial nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe is a neglected topic of analysis in contemporary scholarship. Moreover, national historiographies in Central and Southeast Europe have either marginalized eugenics and racial nationalism or deemed them incompatible with their respective national traditions. Accordingly, this volume has a two-fold ambition: to excavate the hitherto unknown eugenic movements in Central and Southeast Europe and to explain their relationship with racism, nationalism and anti-Semitism. On the one hand, the historiographic perspective substantiated in this volume connects developments in the history of racial anthropology, genetics and eugenics with political ideologies such as racial nationalism and anti-Semitism; on the other hand, it contests the 'Sonderweg' approach adopted by scholars dealing these phenomena in Central and Southeast Europe by arguing that concerns with eugenics and race were as widely disseminated in these regions as they were in Western Europe and North America. Book jacket.
Author : Erwin Baur
Publisher :
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 29,77 MB
Release : 1931
Category : Ethnology
ISBN :
Eugenics and Human Heredity.
Author : Eric Ehrenreich
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 50,70 MB
Release : 2007-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0253116872
How could Germans, inhabitants of the most scientifically advanced nation in the world in the early 20th century, have espoused the inherently unscientific racist doctrines put forward by the Nazi leadership? Eric Ehrenreich traces the widespread acceptance of Nazi policies requiring German individuals to prove their Aryan ancestry to the popularity of ideas about eugenics and racial science that were advanced in the late Imperial and Weimar periods by practitioners of genealogy and eugenics. After the enactment of Nazi racial laws in the 1930s, the Reich Genealogical Authority, employing professional genealogists, became the providers and arbiters of the ancestral proof. This is the first detailed study of the operation of the ancestral proof in the Third Reich and the link between Nazi racism and earlier German genealogical practices. The widespread acceptance of this racist ideology by ordinary Germans helped create the conditions for the Final Solution.
Author : Carl A. Zimring
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 21,44 MB
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 147987437X
From the age of Thomas Jefferson to the Memphis Public Workers strike of 1968 through the present day, ideas about race-- whites are "clean" and non-whites are "dirty"-- have shaped where people have lived, where people have worked, and how American society's wastes have been managed. Zimring draws on historical evidence from statesmen, scholars, sanitarians, novelists, activists, advertisements, and the United States Census of Population to reveal changing constructions of environmental racism, focusing on constructions of race and hygiene. The bigoted idea that non-whites are "dirty" remains deeply ingrained in the national psyche, continuing to shape social and environmental inequalities.
Author : Susan D. Bachrach
Publisher :
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,20 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN :
A catalog to accompany an exhibit at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on the subject of the Nazi eugenics program.
Author : Samuel Roberts
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 31,59 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0807832596
For most of the first half of the twentieth century, tuberculosis ranked among the top three causes of mortality among urban African Americans. Often afflicting an entire family or large segments of a neighborhood, the plague of TB was as mysterious as it
Author : Anton Weiss-Wendt
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 21,21 MB
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1496211324
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.
