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Author Schafft, Gretchen Engle.

Title From racism to genocide : anthropology in the Third Reich / Gretchen E. Schafft.

Imprint Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2004.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  301.0943 Sch14f 2004    ---  Available
Description xiv, 297 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-283) and index.
Contents Introduction -- The Jews of the Tarnow ghetto -- Anthropology in Germany before the Second World War : the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute -- The rise of Hitler and his embrace of anthropology -- The discovery in the Smithsonian -- Population selection and relocation in the midst of war -- Anthropology and medicine in the Third Reich -- The end of the war and the aftermath -- Race and racism -- Professional denial, civic denial, and a responsible anthropology.
Subject Anthropology -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Racism in anthropology -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Anthropometry -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Eugenics -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Anthropological ethics -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
National socialism -- Germany -- History.
National Anthropological Archives -- History -- Sources.
Institut fur Deutsche Ostarbeit (Krakow, Poland) -- History -- Sources.
Germany -- History -- 1933-1945.
Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Collaborationists -- Germany.
ISBN 0252029305 (cloth : alk. paper)
Standard No. NLGGC 257276033

 
    
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