Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-223) and index.
Contents
Racial science -- The origins of racist eugenics in imperial Germany -- The spread of racist eugenics in Weimar -- Making the ancestral proof in Nazi Germany -- The Reich Genealogical Authority and its tasks -- The Reich Genealogical Authority and the ancestral proof -- Three beneficiaries of the ancestral proof -- Other means of generating acceptance of racism -- Racial scientific ideology and the Holocaust.