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    Washington, D.C. : German Historical Institute | Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316616994 , 9781107165458
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 533 Seiten
    Edition: First edition
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Wiesen, S. Jonathan Beyond the Racial State: Rethinking Nazi Germany Devin O. Pendas, Mark Roseman, and Richard F. Wetzell 2019
    Series Statement: Publications of the German Historical Institute
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Beyond the racial state
    DDC: 943.086
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    Keywords: Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Deutschland ; Rassismus ; Rassenpolitik ; Antisemitismus ; Antijudaismus ; Minderheit ; Geschichte 1933-1945
    Abstract: "Over the past fifteen or twenty years, scholarship on the Third Reich has increasingly recognized the centrality of racial thought to the formulation of policy in a wide array of fields. During the 1980s, scholars began to depict the Third Reich as, in Michael Burleigh and Wolfgang Wippermann's resonant phrase, a 'racial state.' Moving away from an exclusive focus on anti-Semitism, this racial turn broadened the understanding of Nazi racial policy. It expanded awareness of the range of Nazi victims, incorporating, for instance, the murder of the mentally and physically handicapped, and also the sterilization and incarceration of people considered 'asocial,' into a comprehensive account of Nazi biopolitics. This approach also broached the question of how broad the support for Nazi racial policies was, interrogating the extent to which ordinary Germans cooperated in the projects of the racial state, for instance, as mothers of 'Aryan' children or as supervisors of 'racially inferior' forced laborers. While the benefits of this approach have been significant, it has become increasingly clear in the last few years that the racial state paradigm has begun to obscure as much as it reveals about the reality of the Third Reich. First, this approach tends to reify race as an epistemological category, presenting it as more coherent and comprehensive than it in fact was. The Nazis themselves were aware of the internal tensions and contradictions that plagued any effort to articulate a coherent and comprehensive racial 'science.' Second, the ongoing salience of alternative categories of identity in the Third Reich (ethnic, völkisch, religious, class-based) is difficult to explain within the racial state paradigm. Third, the racial turn blurs the tensions between, on the one hand, specifically racial ideas and policies and, on the other hand, broader traditions of domination and empire-building that acquired at most a superficial racial gloss during the Third Reich. Questions of military necessity or economic advantage coexisted with biopolitical projects"--From German Historical Institute website
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    ISBN: 9781316691700
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 533 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Wiesen, S. Jonathan Beyond the Racial State: Rethinking Nazi Germany Devin O. Pendas, Mark Roseman, and Richard F. Wetzell 2019
    Series Statement: Publications of the German Historical Institute
    Parallel Title: Print version
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Beyond the racial state
    DDC: 943.086
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    Keywords: National socialism and science Congresses ; Minorities Congresses Government policy 20th century ; History ; Group identity Congresses Political aspects 20th century ; History ; Antisemitism Congresses Political aspects 20th century ; History ; Women Congresses Government policy 20th century ; History ; Racism Congresses Political aspects 20th century ; History ; Ethnicity Congresses Political aspects 20th century ; History ; Racism ; Political aspects ; Germany ; History ; 20th century ; Congresses ; Ethnicity ; Political aspects ; Germany ; History ; 20th century ; Congresses ; Antisemitism ; Political aspects ; Germany ; History ; 20th century ; Congresses ; Group identity ; Political aspects ; Germany ; History ; 20th century ; Congresses ; Minorities ; Government policy ; Germany ; History ; 20th century ; Congresses ; Women ; Government policy ; Germany ; History ; 20th century ; Congresses ; National socialism and science ; Congresses ; Germany ; Race relations ; Political aspects ; History ; 20th century ; Congresses ; Germany ; Politics and government ; 1933-1945 ; Congresses ; Germany ; Social policy ; Congresses ; Germany Congresses Politics and government 1933-1945 ; Germany Congresses Social policy ; Germany Congresses Race relations 20th century ; Political aspects ; History ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Deutschland ; Rassismus ; Rassenpolitik ; Antisemitismus ; Antijudaismus ; Minderheit ; Geschichte 1933-1945
    Abstract: 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
    Abstract: 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
    Note: Papers from a conference held at Indiana University, Bloomington, October 23-25, 2009 , Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Nov 2017)
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