Vermessen und Vernichten: Der NS-“Zigeunerforscher” Robert Ritter, Tobias Schmidt-Degenhard, (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012) (Contubernium: Tübinger Beiträge zur Universitäts- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte 76), ix + 246 pp., hardcover, €44.00
How modernist and “scientific” was the Nazi regime? Were disciplines such as biopolitics, racial science, and racial hygiene merely “pseudo-sciences” without scientific foundation, or rather science adapted to the purpose of legitimizing a racist ideology? Further, a key question remains concerning...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 28, Issue: 3, Pages: 512-515 |
| Review of: | Vermessen und Vernichten (Stuttgart : Steiner, 2012) (Felder, Björn)
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| Summary: | How modernist and “scientific” was the Nazi regime? Were disciplines such as biopolitics, racial science, and racial hygiene merely “pseudo-sciences” without scientific foundation, or rather science adapted to the purpose of legitimizing a racist ideology? Further, a key question remains concerning the Nazi scientists: Were they ruthless careerists who would continue their research under any circumstances, and even welcome the unleashing of science, or were they true believers in Nazi ideology who wanted to apply Nazi racism in practice? The picture is varied, and the answer is not easy to discern. Munich psychiatrist Ernst Rüdin, for instance, was the leading expert in racial hygiene for the Nazi government, yet remained influential in the field of psychiatric genetics after World War II. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcu048 |