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Eric Ehrenreich - The Nazi Ancestral Proof. Genealogy, Racial Science, and the Final Solution.  - 9780253349453 - V9780253349453
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The Nazi Ancestral Proof. Genealogy, Racial Science, and the Final Solution.

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Description for The Nazi Ancestral Proof. Genealogy, Racial Science, and the Final Solution. Hardcover. Traces the widespread acceptance of Nazi policies requiring German individuals to prove their Aryan ancestry to the popularity of ideas about eugenics and racial science that were advanced in the late Imperial and Weimar periods by practitioners of genealogy and eugenics. Num Pages: 264 pages, 9 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; JFFJ; JFSL; JPFQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 166 x 24. Weight in Grams: 574.

How could Germans, inhabitants of the most scientifically advanced nation in the world in the early 20th century, have espoused the inherently unscientific racist doctrines put forward by the Nazi leadership? Eric Ehrenreich traces the widespread acceptance of Nazi policies requiring German individuals to prove their Aryan ancestry to the popularity of ideas about eugenics and racial science that were advanced in the late Imperial and Weimar periods by practitioners of genealogy and eugenics. After the enactment of Nazi racial laws in the 1930s, the Reich Genealogical Authority, employing professional genealogists, became the providers and arbiters of the ancestral proof. ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253349453
SKU
V9780253349453
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Eric Ehrenreich
Eric Ehrenreich holds a law degree from the University of California, Davis, and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Wisconsin. He was Douglas and Carol Cohen Postdoctoral Fellow at the U.S. Holocaust Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. He currently practices law in Washington, D.C.

Reviews for The Nazi Ancestral Proof. Genealogy, Racial Science, and the Final Solution.
Thoroughly researched and vigorously argued, this study seeks to explain how the National Socialist regime institutionalized its racial ideology, why it met with virtually no opposition, and how this contributed to genocide. Attorney Ehrenreich shows that, as with many other developments, 1933 was not the absolute watershed scholars usually assume it to have been. Tracing the history of genealogical practices, ... Read more

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