Racial Science in Hitler's New Europe, 1938–1945, edited by Anton Weiss-Wendt and Rory Yeomans (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013), 416 pp., paperback 50.00, electronic version available
“Now we finally know that dealing with racial differences in humans is nothing like a meaningless hobby such as a herbarium or butterfly collection. We need the whole of anthropology as a politically important national science.” So proclaimed the Nazi anthropologist Hans Weinert, scarcely able to di...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2015
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2015, Volume: 29, Issue: 1, Pages: 129-131 |
| Review of: | Racial science in Hitler's new Europe, 1938 - 1945 (Lincoln, Neb. [u.a.] : Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2013) (Levy, Richard S.)
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| Summary: | “Now we finally know that dealing with racial differences in humans is nothing like a meaningless hobby such as a herbarium or butterfly collection. We need the whole of anthropology as a politically important national science.” So proclaimed the Nazi anthropologist Hans Weinert, scarcely able to disguise his satisfaction at regime support for his view. The anthology under review, composed of papers presented in 2009 at Oslo's Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities, seeks to restore the former importance of academic racism to the study of Nazi genocide. It thereby argues against recent historiographical trends subordinating ideology to more mundane explanatory factors such as Nazi utopian economic, agricultural, and social schemes. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcv018 |
