Racial Science in Hitler's New Europe, 1938-1945

Anton Weiss-Wendt is the head of the research department at the Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities in Oslo, Norway. He is the author of Murder without Hatred: Estonians and the Holocaust. Rory Yeomans is the senior international research analyst at the International Directorate of the UK Ministry of Justice. He is the author of Visions of Annihilation: The Ustasha Regime and the Cultural Politics of Fascism, 1941–1945.

• Series Editors' IntroductionAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: The Holocaust and Historiographical Debates on Racial ScienceAnton Weiss-Wendt and Rory Yeomans1. Defining "(Un)Wanted Population Addition": Anthropology, Racist Ideology, and Mass Murder in the Occupied EasIsabel Heinemann2. Preserving the "Master Race": SS Reproductive and Family Policies during the Second World WarAmy Carney3. Germanic Brothers: The Dutch and the Germanization of the Occupied EastGeraldien von Frijtag Drabbe KÜnzel4. Pure-Blooded Vikings and Peasants: Norwegians in the Racial Ideology of the SSTerje Emberland5. "Nordic-Germanic" Dreams and National Realities: A Case Study of the Danish Region of SØnderjylland, 1933-1945Steffen Werther6. Eugenics into Science: The Nazi Period in Austria, 1938-1945Thomas Mayer7. Biological Racism and Antisemitism as Intellectual Constructions in Italian Fascism: The Case of Telesio Interlandi and La difesa della razzaElisabetta Cassina Wolff8. Eradicating "Undesired Elements": National Regeneration and the Ustasha Regime's Program to Purify the Nation, 1941-1945Rory Yeomans9. "If Our Race Did Not Exist, It Would Have to Be Created": Racial Science in Hungary, 1940-1944Marius Turda10. In the Shadow of Ethnic Nationalism: Racial Science in RomaniaVladimir Solonari11. Building Hitler's "New Europe": Ethnography and Racial Research in Nazi-Occupied EstoniaAnton Weiss-Wendt12. In Pursuit of Biological Purity: Eugenics and Racial Paradigms in Nazi-Occupied Latvia, 1941-1945BjÖrn M. Felder13. The Eternal Voice of the Blood: Racial Science and Nazi EthicsWolfgang BialasContributorsIndex

"This is an impressive work that provides important new insights for historians of eugenics/racial hygiene, racial anthropology, the Second World War and the Holocaust."-Bradley W. Hart, European History Quarterly "An important text for Holocaust scholars."—C. Pinto, CHOICE "[Racial Science in Hitler's New Europe, 1938-1945 is] a refreshing, cohesive, and compelling contribution to the scholarship on racial policy inside Hitler's Europe."—Michael McConnell, H-German "These essays provide a wealth of information about eugenics and scientific racism in areas that have been underexplored in the past. The book not only sheds light on Nazi racial ideology and policies, but also on the way that scientists and government officials in other parts of Europe responded to Nazi racial ideology and eugenics in the brief period of German ascendancy in Europe."-Richard Weikart, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences "This is an important book that makes a significant and original contribution to the development of the historical literature in this field."-Lisa Pine, Social History of Medicine