The persistence of Race: Continuity and Change in Germany from the Wilhelmine Empire to National Socialism

Race in 20th-century German history is an inescapable topic, one that has been defined overwhelmingly by the narratives of degeneracy that prefigured the Nuremberg Laws and death camps of the Third Reich. As the contributions to this innovative volume show, however, German society produced a much mo...

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Veröffentlicht: New York ; Oxford Berghahn Books [2017]
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Zusammenfassung:Race in 20th-century German history is an inescapable topic, one that has been defined overwhelmingly by the narratives of degeneracy that prefigured the Nuremberg Laws and death camps of the Third Reich. As the contributions to this innovative volume show, however, German society produced a much more complex variety of racial representations over the first part of the century. Here, historians explore the hateful depictions of the Nazi period alongside idealized images of African, Pacific and Australian indigenous peoples, demonstrating both the remarkable fixity race had as an object of fascination for German society as well as the conceptual plasticity it exhibited through several historical eras
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Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (274 Seiten)
ISBN:9781785335952
DOI:10.1515/9781785335952

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