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100 1 |a Pendas, Devin O.  |e [editor] 
245 0 0 |a Beyond the racial state  |b rethinking Nazi Germany  |c edited by Devin O. Pendas, Mark Roseman, and Richard F. Wetzell 
260 |a Cambridge  |b Cambridge University Press  |c 2017 
300 |a xi, 533 pages  |b digital 
505 0 |a Part I. Comparative and historical perspectives -- Racial discourse, Nazi violence, and the limits of the racial state model / Mark Roseman -- The murder of European Jewry : Nazi genocide in continental perspective / Donald Bloxham -- Meanings of race and biopolitics in historical perspective / Pascal Grosse -- Racial states in comparative perspective / Devin O. Pendas -- Part II. Race, science, and Nazi biopolitics -- Eugenics and racial science in Nazi Germany : was there a genesis of the "Final Solution" from the spirit of science? / Richard F. Wetzell -- Race science, race mysticism, and the racial state / Dan Stone -- Ideology's logic : the evolution of racial thought in Germany from the Volkisch movement to the Third Reich / Christian Geulen -- Nazi medical crimes, eugenics, and the limits of the racial state paradigm / Herwig Czech -- Part III. Anti-semitism beyond race --  
505 0 |a "The axis around which national socialist ideology turns" : state bureaucracy, the Reich Ministry of the Interior and racial policy in the first years of the Third Reich / Jurgen Matthaus -- Neither Aryan nor Semite : reflections on the meanings of race in Nazi Germany / Richard Steigmann-Gall -- Racializing historiography : anti-Jewish scholarship in the Third Reich / Dirk Rupnow -- Part IV. Race and society -- Volksgemeinschaft : a controversy / Michael Wildt -- Mothers, whores, or sentimental dupes? : emotion and race in historiographical debates about women in the Third Reich / Annette F. Timm -- Nationalist mobilization : foreign diplomats' views on the Third Reich, 1933-1945 / Frank Bajohr -- Race and humor in Nazi Germany / Martina Kessel -- Legitimacy through war? / Nicholas Stargardt -- Part V. Race war? : Germans and non-Germans in wartime -- Negotiating Volkisch and racial identities : the Deutsche Volksliste in annexed Poland / Gerhard Wolf --  
505 0 |a Sex, race, Volksgemeinschaft : German soldiers' sexual encounters with local women and men during the war and the occupation in the Soviet Union, 1941-1945 / Regina Muhlhauser -- The disintegration of the racial basis of the concentration camp system / Stefan Hordler 
651 4 |a Germany / Race relations / Political aspects / History / 20th century / Congresses 
651 4 |a Germany / Politics and government / 1933-1945 / Congresses 
651 4 |a Germany / Social policy / Congresses 
653 |a Racism / Political aspects / Germany / History / 20th century / Congresses 
653 |a Ethnicity / Political aspects / Germany / History / 20th century / Congresses 
653 |a Antisemitism / Political aspects / Germany / History / 20th century / Congresses 
653 |a Group identity / Political aspects / Germany / History / 20th century / Congresses 
653 |a Minorities / Government policy / Germany / History / 20th century / Congresses 
653 |a Women / Government policy / Germany / History / 20th century / Congresses 
653 |a National socialism and science / Congresses 
700 1 |a Roseman, Mark  |e [editor] 
700 1 |a Wetzell, Richard F.  |e [editor] 
041 0 7 |a eng  |2 ISO 639-2 
989 |b CBO  |a Cambridge Books Online 
490 0 |a Publications of the German Historical Institute 
856 4 0 |u https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316691700  |x Verlag  |3 Volltext 
082 0 |a 943.086 
520 |a The 'racial state' has become a familiar shorthand for the Third Reich, encapsulating its raison d'être, ambitions, and the underlying logic of its genocidal violence. The Nazi racial state's agenda is generally understood as a fundamental reshaping of society based on a new hierarchy of racial value. However, this volume argues that it is time to reappraise what race really meant under Nazism, and to question and complicate its relationship to the Nazis' agenda, actions, and appeal. Based on a wealth of new research, the contributors show that racial knowledge and racial discourse in Nazi Germany were far more contradictory and disparate than we have come to assume. They shed new light on the ways that racial policy worked and was understood, and consider race's function, content, and power in relation to society and nation, and above all, in relation to the extraordinary violence unleashed by the Nazis