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From racism to genocide : anthropology in the Third Reich /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schafft, Gretchen Engle
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2004]
Subjects:
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 für Deutsche Ostarbeit (Kraków, Poland) > History > Sources.
Germany > History > 1933-1945.
Germany > Politics and government > 1933-1945.
World War, 1939-1945 > Collaborationists > Germany.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Jews of the Tarnów 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.