Bloodlines: Recovering Hitler's Nuremberg Laws from Patton's Trophy to Public Memorial

ISBN-13: 9781594511400 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 280 str.

Anthony M. Platt; Cecilia E. O'Leary

Opis

At the end of World War II, an American military intelligence team retrieved an original copy of the 1935 Nuremberg Laws, signed by Hitler, and turned over this rare document to General George S. Patton. In 1999, after fifty-five years in the vault of the Huntington Library in southern California, the Nuremberg Laws resurfaced and were put on public display for the first time at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. In this far-ranging, interdisciplinary study that is part historical analysis, part cultural critique, part detective story, and part memoir, Tony Platt explores a range of interrelated issues: war-time looting, remembrance of the holocaust, German and American eugenics, and the public responsibilities of museums and cultural centers. This book is based on original research by the author and co-researcher, historian Cecilia O'Leary, in government, military, and library archives; interviews and oral histories; and participant observation. It is both a detailed, scholarly analysis and a record of the author's activist efforts to correct the historical record.

Spis treści

I. ORIGINS STORIES; Paradise for Humanists; The Closest You Come; A Suitable Past; The Last Word; Old Wounds; II. PRESENT ABSENCES; Everyone Else; The Liberator; A Bolt Out of The Blue; Where Cultures Connect; III. RACIAL HYGIENE: OVER THERE; Tall Like Germans; Human Betterment; Eugenic Science; Nordics of the World; IV. BLOOD AND HONOR; City of the Reich Party Rallies; The Jewish Question; Nazi Icon; Completely Destroyed; Irony of Fate; V. PATTON'S TROPHY; Loot; Problem Child; The Important One; Off The Books; In Limbo; VI. RACIAL HYGIENE: OVER HERE; Outpost of Civilization; Race Matters; Legacies; VII. THE DECISION; Company Village; Economics of Change; Public Face; Overtures; The Story; VIII. PAST AND PRESENT; The Aftermath; Reframing the Exhibit; Positive Messages; History Lessons; APPENDICES; CHRONOLOGY; GLOSSARY; ACRONYMS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR & CO-RESEARCHER.

O autorze

Authored by Platt, Anthony M.; O'Leary, Cecilia Elizabeth