Health, Race and German Politics Between National Unification and Nazism, 1870-1945

Health, Race and German Politics Between National Unification and Nazism, 1870-1945
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 664
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ISBN-10 : 052142397X
ISBN-13 : 9780521423977
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Download or read book Health, Race and German Politics Between National Unification and Nazism, 1870-1945 written by Paul Weindling and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-07-22 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the development of racial hygiene theory and eugenics research in Germany from the end of the 19th century through the Third Reich. Discusses particularly the work of Alfred Ploetz, a leading propagator of racial hygiene, and his anti-Jewish views. It was argued that German medical science had fallen prey to the "Jewish spirit" and was thus in need of reform. Argues that the biological, medical, and anthropological variants of racism were not only concerned with antisemitism but also influenced Nazi health and social policy. Eugenicists of Jewish origin became victims of the system they had helped to construct. Analyzes how racial hygiene theories were incorporated into Hitler's racial antisemitism and became the basis for the Nazi sterilization and euthanasia programs which, in turn, became the basis for the mass murder of the Jews.


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