German scholars and ethnic cleansing, 1919-1945

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Haar Ingo; Fahlbusch Michael
Published: Berghahn Books,
Publisher Address: New York
Publication Dates: 2005.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Carrier Form: xxi, 298 p.: ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 1571814353 (alk. paper)
9781571814357 (alk. paper)
Index Number: D751
CLC: D751.61
Call Number: D751.61/G373
Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-283) and indexes.
German Ostforschung and anti-Semitism / Ingo Haar -- The role and impact of German ethnopolitical experts in the SS Reich Security main office / Michael Fahlbusch -- The Nazi ethnographic research of Georg Leibbrandt and Karl Stumpp in Ukraine, and its North America legacy / Eric J. Schmaltz and Samuel D. Sinner -- Volk, Bevo lkerung, Rasse, and Raum : Erich Keyser's ambiguous concept of a German history of population, ca. 1918-1955 / Alexander Pinwinkler -- Ethnic politics and scholarly legitimation : the German Institut fu r Heimatforschung in Slovakia, 1941-1944 / Christof Morrissey --
"This collection of original essays, written by the foremost European scholars in this field, describes key figures and programs supporting the expansion and exploitation of the Third Reich. In particular, they analyze the historical, geographic, ethnographical and ethnopolitical ideas behind the ethnic cleansing and looting of cultural treasures."--BOOK JACKET.