The Racial State: Germany 1933-1945

ISBN-13: 9780521398022 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 404 str.

Michael Berleigh; Michael Burleigh; Wolfgang Wipperman

Opis

Between 1933 and 1945 the Nazi regime in Germany tried to restructure a "class" society along racial lines. This book deals with the ideas and institutions that underpinned this mission, and shows how Nazi policy affected various groups of people, both victims and beneficiaries. The book begins with a serious discussion of the origins of Nazi racial ideology, and then demonstrates the way in which this was translated into official policy. It deals with the systematic persecution not only of the Jews, but also with the fate of lesser-known groups such as Sinti and Roma, the mentally handicapped, the "asocial," and homosexuals.

Recenzje

'The Racial State may be recommended as one of the best introductions available to the still burgeoning and highly charged scholarly literatures on the Third Reich.' Ethnic and Racial Studies

Spis treści

List of illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: why another book on the Third Reich?; Part I. The Setting: 1. How modern, German, and totalitarian was the Third Reich? Some major historiographical controversies; 2. Barbarous utopias: racial idealogies in Germany; 3. Barbarism institutionalised: racism as state policy; Part II. The 'Purification' Of The Body Of The Nation: 4. The persecution of the Jews; 5. The persecution of Sinti and Roma, and other ethnic minorities; 6. The persecution of the 'hereditarily ill', the 'asocial', and homosexuals; Part III. The Formation Of The 'National Community': 7. Youth in the Third Reich; 8. Women in the Third Reich; 9. Men in the Third Reich; Conclusion: National Socialist racial and social policy; Notes; Bibliographical essay; Index.