In Racial Science in Hitler s New Europe, 1938 1945, international scholars examine the theories of race that informed the legal, political, and social policies aimed against ethnic minorities in Nazi-dominated Europe. The essays explicate how racial science, preexisting racist sentiments, and pseudoscientific theories of race that were preeminent in interwar Europe ultimately facilitated Nazi racial designs for a New Europe.

The volume examines racial theories in a number of European nation-states in order to understand racial thinking at large, the origins of the Holocaust,...