German Scholars and Ethnic Cleansing, 1919-1945

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Ingo Haar, Michael Fahlbusch
Berghahn Books, 2005 - Broj stranica: 298

Recently, there has been a major shift in the focus of historical research on World War II towards the study of the involvements of scholars and academic institutions in the crimes of the Third Reich. The roots of this involvement go back to the 1920s. At that time right-wing scholars participated in the movement to revise the Versailles Treaty and to create a new German national identity. The contribution of geopolitics to this development is notorious. But there were also the disciplines of history, geography, ethnography, art history, archeology, sociology, and demography that devised a new nationalist ideology and propaganda. Its scholars established an extensive network of personal and institutional contacts. This volume deals with these scholars and their agendas. They provided the Nazi regime with ideas of territorial expansion, colonial exploitation and racist exclusion culminating in the Holocaust. Apart from developing ideas and concepts, scholars also actively worked in the SS and Wehrmacht when Hitler began to implement its criminal policies in World War II.

This collection of original essays, written by the foremost European scholars in this field, describes key figures and key programs supporting the expansion and exploitation of the Third Reich. In particular, they analyze the historical, geographic, ethnographical and ethno-political ideas behind the ethnic cleansing and looting of cultural treasures.

 

Sadržaj

The Role and Impact of German Ethnopolitical Experts
28
The Nazi Ethnographic Research of Georg Leibbrandt
48
Erich Keysers Ambiguous
86
The German
100
German Scholars and National
110
The Case
139
Fritz Braun a German Emigration
155
Franz Petri 19031993
175
National Liberal Nordic Prophet
200
German Cultural Policy in Occupied Europe
213
Hans Rothfels and Neoconservative
236
An Attempt
260
Selected Bibliography
272
Notes on Contributors
284
Names Index
295
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O autoru (2005)

Ingo Haar is working as a Research Fellow in the Berlin Centre of Research on Anti-Semitism (Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, Berlin). He was a member of the Austrian Historical Commission on History of National Socialism and has worked extensively on the involvement of historians in the policies and ideology of the Third Reich. Michael Fahlbusch lives in Switzerland. He studied Geography in Münster and Zürich. He has written on the history of science, ethnic cleansing and ethno-politics in 20th-century Europe.

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