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From Racism to Genocide

Anthropology in the Third Reich

By: Gretchen Engle Schafft

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From Racism to Genocide

Anthropology in the Third Reich

By: Gretchen Engle Schafft

From Racism to Genocide is an explosive, richly detailed account of how Nazi anthropologists justified racism, developed practical applications of racist theory, and eventually participated in every phase of the Holocaust. Using original sources, correspondence between anthropologists of the time, and previously unpublished documentation, Gretchen Schafft shows the total range of anti-human activity from within the confines of a particular discipline. Based on seven years of archival research in this country and abroad, the work includes many original photos and documents, most of which have never before been published. It uses primary data and original texts whenever possible, including correspondence written by perpetrators. A discussion of Hitler's final solution, Nazi slave labor, and the rape of occupied Poland reveal the full horror of the Third Reich. Embedded concepts of scientism, denial, academic responsibility, and race contribute to understanding some of today's most pressing social science issues. The book also reveals that the United States was not merely a bystander in this research, but instead contributed scientific and financial support to early racial r

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University of Illinois Press

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0252029305

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Commemorating Hell

The Public Memory of Mittelbau-Dora

By: Gretchen E. Schafft,Gerhard Zeidler

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The Public Memory of Mittelbau-Dora

By: Gretchen E. Schafft,Gerhard Zeidler

This powerful, wide-ranging history of the Nazi concentration camp Mittelbau-Dora is the first book to analyze how memory of the Third Reich evolved throughout changes in the German regime from World War II to the present. Building on intimate knowledge of the history of the camp, where a third of the 60,000 prisoners did not survive the war, Gretchen Schafft and Gerhard Zeidler examine the political and cultural aspects of the camp's memorialization in East Germany and, after 1989, in unified Germany. Prisoners at Mittelbau-Dora built the V-1 and V-2 missiles, some of them coming into direct contact with Wernher von Braun and Arthur Rudolph, who later became leading engineers in the U.S. space program. Through the continuing story of Mittelbau-Dora, from its operation as a labor camp to its social construction as a monument, Schafft and Zeidler reflect an abiding interest in the memory and commemoration of notorious national events. In extending the analysis of Mittelbau-Dora into post-war and present-day Germany, Commemorating Hell uncovers the intricate relationship between the politics of memory and broader state and global politics, revealing insights about the camp's relationship to the American space pioneers and the fate of the nearby city of Nordhausen.

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From Racism to Genocide

Anthropology in the Third Reich

By: Gretchen Engle Schafft

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From Racism to Genocide

Anthropology in the Third Reich

By: Gretchen Engle Schafft

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University of Illinois Press

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0252029305

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9780252029301

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From Racism to Genocide

From Racism to Genocide

Commemorating Hell

Commemorating Hell

From Racism to Genocide

From Racism to Genocide

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