German scholars and ethnic cleansing, 1919-1945

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German scholars and ethnic cleansing, 1919-1945

edited by Ingo Haar and Michael Fahlbusch ; foreword by Georg G. Iggers

Berghahn Books, 2005

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Cover title of hardback ed. reprinted in 2006: German scholars and ethnic cleansing, 1919-1945

Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-283) and indexes

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Recently, there has been a major shift in the focus of historical research on World War II towards the study of the involvements of scholars and academic institutions in the crimes of the Third Reich. The roots of this involvement go back to the 1920s. At that time right-wing scholars participated in the movement to revise the Versailles Treaty and to create a new German national identity. The contribution of geopolitics to this development is notorious. But there were also the disciplines of history, geography, ethnography, art history, archeology, sociology, and demography that devised a new nationalist ideology and propaganda. Its scholars established an extensive network of personal and institutional contacts. This volume deals with these scholars and their agendas. They provided the Nazi regime with ideas of territorial expansion, colonial exploitation and racist exclusion culminating in the Holocaust. Apart from developing ideas and concepts, scholars also actively worked in the SS and Wehrmacht when Hitler began to implement its criminal policies in World War II. This collection of original essays, written by the foremost European scholars in this field, describes key figures and key programs supporting the expansion and exploitation of the Third Reich. In particular, they analyze the historical, geographic, ethnographical and ethno-political ideas behind the ethnic cleansing and looting of cultural treasures.

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Foreword Georg G. Iggers Preface Ingo Haar and Michael Fahlbusch List of Abbreviations Chapter 1. German Ostforschung and Anti-Semitism Ingo Haar Chapter 2. The Role and Impact of German Ethnopolitical Experts in the SS Reich Security Main Office Michael Fahlbusch Chapter 3. The Nazi Ethnographic Research of Georg Leibbrandt and Karl Stumpp in Ukraine, and Its North American Legacy Eric J. Schmaltz and Samuel D. Sinner Chapter 4. Volk, Bevoelkerung, Rasse, and Raum: Erich Keyser's Ambiguous Concept of a German History of Population, ca. 1918-1955 Alexander Pinwinkler Chapter 5. Ethnic Politics and Scholarly Legitimation: The German Institut fu r Heimatforschung in Slovakia, 1941-1944 Christof Morrissey Chapter 6. The Sword of Science: German Scholars and National Socialist Annexation Policy in Slovenia and Northern Italy Michael Wedekind Chapter 7. Romanian-German Collaboration in Ethnopolitics: The Case of Sabin Manuila Viorel Achim Chapter 8. Palatines All Over the World: Fritz Braun, a German Emigration Researcher in National Socialist Population Policy Wolfgang Freund Chapter 9. German Westforschung, 1918 to the Present: The Case of Franz Petri, 1903-1993 Hans Derks Chapter 10. Otto Scheel: National Liberal, Nordic Prophet Eric Kurlander Chapter 11. The "Third Front": German Cultural Policy in Occupied Europe, 1940-1945 Frank-Rutger Hausmann Chapter 12. "Richtung halten": Hans Rothfels and Neoconservative Historiography on Both Sides of the Atlantic Karl Heinz Roth Chapter 13. Polish mysl zachodnia and German Ostforschung: An Attempt at a Comparison Jan M. Piskorski Selected Bibliography Notes on Contributors Subject Index Names Index

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