German Scholars and Ethnic Cleansing, 1919-1945
322German Scholars and Ethnic Cleansing, 1919-1945
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Overview
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.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781571814357 |
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Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
Publication date: | 01/01/2005 |
Series: | Austrian and Habsburg Studies |
Pages: | 322 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |
About the Author
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.
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.
Table of Contents
Foreword Georg G. Iggers†Preface Ingo Haar and Michael Fahlbusch
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1. German Ostforschung and Anti-Semitism Ingo Haar
Chapter 2. The Role and Impact of German Ethnopolitical Experts in the SS Reich Security Main Office Michael Fahlbusch
Chapter 3. The Nazi Ethnographic Research of Georg Leibbrandt and Karl Stumpp in Ukraine, and Its North American Legacy Eric J. Schmaltz and Samuel D. Sinner
Chapter 4. Volk, Bevölkerung, Rasse, and Raum: Erich Keyser’s Ambiguous Concept of a German History of Population, ca. 1918–1955 Alexander Pinwinkler
Chapter 5. Ethnic Politics and Scholarly Legitimation: The German Institut für Heimatforschung in Slovakia, 1941–1944 Christof Morrissey
Chapter 6. The Sword of Science: German Scholars and National Socialist Annexation Policy in Slovenia and Northern Italy Michael Wedekind
Chapter 7. Romanian-German Collaboration in Ethnopolitics: The Case of Sabin Manuila Viorel Achim
Chapter 8. Palatines All Over the World: Fritz Braun, a German Emigration Researcher in National Socialist Population Policy Wolfgang Freund
Chapter 9. German Westforschung, 1918 to the Present: The Case of Franz Petri, 1903–1993 Hans Derks
Chapter 10. Otto Scheel: National Liberal, Nordic Prophet Eric Kurlander
Chapter 11. The “Third Front”: German Cultural Policy in Occupied Europe, 1940–1945 Frank-Rutger Hausmann
Chapter 12. “Richtung halten”: Hans Rothfels and Neoconservative Historiography on Both Sides of the Atlantic Karl Heinz Roth
Chapter 13. Polish mysl zachodnia and German Ostforschung: An Attempt at a Comparison Jan M. Piskorski
Selected Bibliography Notes on Contributors Subject Index Names Index