The Nazi Ancestral Proof: Genealogy, Racial Science, and the Final Solution, Eric Ehrenreich (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007), xx + 234 pp., 34.95
Eric Ehrenreich has investigated the evolution of German genealogy from the late nineteenth century up to 1945, linking it to the mounting racist prejudices in the scientific community, to the Nazi regime, and to the murder of Europe's Jews. By dint of meticulous research, the author has produc...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2008
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2008, Volume: 22, Issue: 3, Pages: 527-528 |
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| Summary: | Eric Ehrenreich has investigated the evolution of German genealogy from the late nineteenth century up to 1945, linking it to the mounting racist prejudices in the scientific community, to the Nazi regime, and to the murder of Europe's Jews. By dint of meticulous research, the author has produced a significant accomplishment. After they seized power in 1933 the Nazis decreed that all Germans must document their genealogy and obtain an “ancestral proof” that they indeed were “Aryan.” The latter term was a sort of euphemism for “not Jewish.” Genealogy in this context became one more weapon in the war against “Jewry.”, Were such a proscription to occur anywhere in the world today, or for that matter in most “civilized” nations during the 1930s, public outcries would have immediately ensued. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcn048 |