Racial science in Hitler's new Europe, 1938-1945

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Label

Racial science in Hitler's new Europe, 1938-1945

Statement of responsibility

edited by Anton Weiss-Wendt and Rory Yeomans

Creator

• Weiss-Wendt, Anton, 1973-

Contributor

• Yeomans, Rory

Editor

• Weiss-Wendt, Anton, 1973-
• Yeomans, Rory

Subject

• Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945
• Germany -- Race relations
• National socialism and medicine -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
• National socialism and science -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
• Physical anthropology -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
• Race -- Research -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
• Racism in anthropology -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
• Racism in medicine -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
• Eugenics -- Europe -- History -- 20th century

Language

eng

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--

Member of

• Critical studies in the history of anthropology

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Provided by Publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

305.800943

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Critical studies in the history of anthropology