Race and the Third Reich aims to set out the key concepts, debates
and controversies that marked the academic study of race in Nazi
Germany. It looks in particular at the discipline of racial
anthropology and its relationship to linguistics and human biology.
Christopher Hutton identifies the central figures involved in
the study of race during the Nazi regime, and traces continuities
and discontinuities between Nazism and the study of human diversity
in the Western tradition. Whilst Nazi race theory is commonly
associated with the idea of a superior "Aryan race" and with the
idealization of the Nordic ideal of blond hair, blue eyes and a
"long-skull," Nazi race theorists, in common with their colleagues
outside Germany, without exception denied the existence of an Aryan
race. After 1935 official publications were at pains to stress that
the term "Aryan" belonged to linguistics and was not a racial
category at all. Under the influence of Mendelian genetics, racial
anthropologists concluded that there was no necessary link between
ideal physical appearance and ideal racial character. In the course
of the Third Reich, racial anthropology was marginalized in favour
of the rising science of human genetics. However, racial
anthropologists played a key role in the crimes of the Nazi state
by defining Jews and others as racial outsiders to be excluded at
all costs from the body of the German Volk.
Anyone studying the Third Reich or who is interested in race
theory will find this a fascinating, informative and accessible
study.
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