In this book, Weikart helps unlock the mystery of Hitlers evil by vividly demonstrating the surprising conclusion that Hitler's immorality flowed from a coherent ethic. Hitler was inspired by evolutionary ethics to pursue the utopian project of biologically improving the human race. This ethic underlay or influenced almost every major feature of Nazi policy: eugenics (i.e., measures to improve human ...

Bayor (history, Georgia Tech), wishing to get a sense of "how the peopling of America took place," presents eight chronological chapters exploring the history of immigration, race, and ethnicity in the United States. Authors were asked to deal with issues of migration, intergroup relations, nativism and racism, and identity formation, as well as the changing views on immigration and ethnicity among ...

GIs and Fräuleins focuses on the intense popular and institutional reactions to sexual and romantic relations between German women and American men and the complex interplay between German and American forms of racism. It also recasts the terms of debate over the legacies of Nazism and the persistence of anti-Semitism. Bibliogr.: p. [297]-325.-Index. XIII, 337 p. : ill., krt. ; 25 cm

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität Münster under the title: "Katholische Eugenik in der Weimarer Republik und im Dritten Reich. Zwischen Rassenhygiene und Sittlichkeitsparänese." 572 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Proposes a framework for understanding the history of the Holocaust, focusing on the German perpetrators of the genocide and reflecting on social, ethical, and religious issues. Discusses the evolution of antisemitism from the ancient period to Nazi racism. Describes the Nazi rise to power, anti-Jewish laws of the 1930s, the "Kristallnacht" pogrom, ghettoization in occupied Poland, mass killings in ...

Includes bibliographical references (391-405) and index. 416 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index. xiv, 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

"From the followers of Haj Amin Al-Husseini, the Arab leader who met with Adolph Hitler in November 1942, to Balkan Muslim volunteers for the Waffen SS during World War II, fascism's heady brew of extreme nationalism and racism has seduced peoples across all races, religions, and classes. Now widely reviled, fascism became the dominant political force in Western Europe throughout the 1930s and into ...

1. Aufl. 565 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Met lit. opg. 367 p. ; 24 cm.

Contains the records of the Criminal Police Berlin (Kripoleitstelle) concerning Jews, Roma, and Sinti.

TK-74-06-613-NL-C. 12 p. ; 30 cm.

"The Quiet Violence of Empire traces USAID's long and bloody history of development work in Afghanistan to reveal the transnational entanglements of imperialism and racial capitalism, deftly underscoring the notion of development as a form of slow violence. Thinking relationally across human geography, global studies, and critical ethnic studies, Attewell uncovers the explicitly racial underpinnings ...

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität Hamburg, 2009. 370 pages ; 24 cm.

"This major reinterpretation of the Holocaust surveys the destruction of the European Jews within the broader context of Nazi violence against other victim groups. Christian Gerlach offers a unique social history of mass violence which reveals why particular groups were persecuted and what it was that connected the fate of these groups and the policies against them. He explores the diverse ideological, ...

Describes the "Kristallnacht" pogrom in the Bavarian town of Schweinfurt: pillaging of shops and homes, arrest of all the Jewish men, intimidation and humiliation of the remaining Jews, destruction of the synagogue. Hitler youth threw stones at Jews herded together in the cattle market. Traces the sources of Nazi antisemitism in medieval Christianity and the racism of the Wilhelmine era. Chronicles ...

African Americans have a long history of active involvement and interest in international affairs, but their efforts have been largely ignored by scholars of American foreign policy. Gayle Plummer brings a new perspective to the study of twentieth-century American history with her analysis of black Americans' engagement with international issues, from the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 through ...

This collection of essays arises from a conference held at the University of Cape Town under the auspices of the Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research. Leading international Holocaust scholars met to reflect on the ways their personal experiences influenced their professional trajectories over many decades of immersion in studies of the Holocaust. Participants examined changes ...

Discusses antisemitism in comparison with anti-gypsyism in Germany from the 15th century. Claims that, although there is no systematic research comparing the two, Jews and Gypsies suffered from the same persecution. From the medieval period on, both were accused of association with the devil, well-poisoning, and blood libels. The lack of comparative research is explained by the different roots of the ...

Challenging the notion that there was no 'popular imperialism' in France, this important new book examines the importance of France's colonial role in the development of French society and culture after 1870. It assesses the impact of colonial propaganda on public attitudes in France and the relationship between French imperialism, republicanism and nationalism. It analyses metropolitan representations ...

The collection includes foundational materials, records, photographs of institutional activity, committees, campaigns, complaints, archives of the United Restitution Office, assemblies and public activities, files, work folders, and surveys on anti-Semitism in the form of reports and newspaper clippings. It covers action against Nazism from 1935, as well as different expressions of anti-Semitism in ...

Streicher (1885-1946), a radical rightist leader of the early 1920s, later a Nazi and the Gauleiter of Franconia, was a rabid antisemite and a relentless antisemitic propagandist. Presents a brief political biography, followed by an examination of his anti-Jewish views and propaganda methods. Streicher's views, as divulged in his newspaper "Der Stürmer", included extreme racism and belief in racial ...

Within the AFL (American Federation of Labor) in the early 1930s a strong minority faction evolved, advocating the organisation of workers in the basic mass-production industries. John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America led this faction in forming a Committee for Industrial Organization in 1935. This group (changing its name in 1938 to Congress of Industrial Organizations) immediately launched ...