The Racial State: Germany 1933-1945Between 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. |
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Contents
How modern German and totalitarian was the Third Reich? Some major historiographical controversies | 7 |
Barbarous utopias racial ideologies in Germany | 23 |
Barbarism institutionalised racism as state policy | 44 |
THE PURIFICATION OF THE BODY OF THE NATION | 75 |
The persecution of the Jews | 77 |
The persecution of Sinti and Roma and other ethnic minorities | 113 |
The persecution of the hereditarily ill the asocial and homosexuals | 136 |
THE FORMATION OF THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY | 199 |
Youth in the Third Reich | 201 |
Women in the Third Reich | 242 |
Men in the Third Reich | 267 |
National Socialist racial and social policy | 304 |
Notes | 308 |
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| Title | The Racial State: Germany 1933-1945 |
| Authors | Michael Burleigh, Wolfgang Wippermann |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1991 |
| ISBN | 0521398029, 9780521398022 |
| Length | 386 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Europe / General History / Europe / Germany History / Modern / 20th Century |
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