- ホーム
- > 洋書
- > 英文書
- > History / World
Full Description
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.
Contents
Series Editors' IntroductionAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: The Holocaust and Historiographical Debates on Racial ScienceAnton Weiss-Wendt and Rory Yeomans1. Defining "(Un)Wanted Population Addition": Anthropology, Racist Ideology, and Mass Murder in the Occupied EasIsabel Heinemann2. Preserving the "Master Race": SS Reproductive and Family Policies during the Second World WarAmy Carney3. Germanic Brothers: The Dutch and the Germanization of the Occupied EastGeraldien von Frijtag Drabbe Künzel4. Pure-Blooded Vikings and Peasants: Norwegians in the Racial Ideology of the SSTerje Emberland5. "Nordic-Germanic" Dreams and National Realities: A Case Study of the Danish Region of Sønderjylland, 1933-1945Steffen Werther6. Eugenics into Science: The Nazi Period in Austria, 1938-1945Thomas Mayer7. Biological Racism and Antisemitism as Intellectual Constructions in Italian Fascism: The Case of Telesio Interlandi and La difesa della razzaElisabetta Cassina Wolff8. Eradicating "Undesired Elements": National Regeneration and the Ustasha Regime's Program to Purify the Nation, 1941-1945Rory Yeomans9. "If Our Race Did Not Exist, It Would Have to Be Created": Racial Science in Hungary, 1940-1944Marius Turda10. In the Shadow of Ethnic Nationalism: Racial Science in RomaniaVladimir Solonari11. Building Hitler's "New Europe": Ethnography and Racial Research in Nazi-Occupied EstoniaAnton Weiss-Wendt12. In Pursuit of Biological Purity: Eugenics and Racial Paradigms in Nazi-Occupied Latvia, 1941-1945Björn M. Felder13. The Eternal Voice of the Blood: Racial Science and Nazi EthicsWolfgang BialasContributorsIndex
