The explorer's roadmap to national-socialism: Sven Hedin, geography and the path to genocide
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1. Verfasser: Danielsson, Sarah Kristina (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Burlington, VT Ashgate 2012
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Beschreibung:Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Minnesota, 2005
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: at the heart of the matter: the politics of science -- Part I. From geographer to political activist, 1880-1933: Geographical knowledge is world power: Sven Hedin's rise to fame and influence, 1885-1903; the ideological conviction of a germanic nationalist: Hedin the agitator, 1904-1913; at the front lines of the great war: defending the Germanic cause, 1914-1918; "there is a cancer in the middle of Europe": Hedin's national-socialist blue-print, 1919-1934 -- Part II. The Nazi years and the aftermath, 1934-1952: The hour of retribution has struck: the fateful years, 1935-1938; on a mission in Berlin: plans for the East and the move towards genocide, 1939-1941; the truest friend of the Third Reich: justifying genocide, 1942-1945; the final years: Sven Hedin, Apologia pro vita sua -- Conclusion: the politics of science: in defense of the indefensible
Whilst terms such as Lebensraum are commonly associated with National-Socialist ideology of the 1930s and 40s, ideas of racial living space were in fact generated in the previous decades by an international geographic community of explorers and academics. Focusing on one of the most influential figures within this group, Sven Hedin, this is the first study that systematically connects the geographic community to the intellectual history of the development of National-Socialist ideology and genocidal practices
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