Beyond the racial state rethinking Nazi Germany
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 hier...
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2017
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- "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
- 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