Language:
German
Year of publication:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft
Angaben zur Quelle:
48,6 (2000) 485-508
Keywords:
Germans Attitudes
;
Antisemitism History 20th century
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Surveys the institutions (most of them outside the universities) in Weimar and Nazi Germany engaged in demographic and ethnological research on Eastern Europe. Their thrust was mainly to strengthen the German minorities in those countries in their separate identity, and to encourage possible irredentism in the border regions; initially, antisemitism was not a factor in this research. With the invasion of Poland, however, the data collected by these institutions became the basis for Nazi demographic policy; the scholars worked as advisers to the various SS and party agencies carrying out that policy, which included the deportation and extermination of the Jews, for which many of the scholars functioned as advocates.
Note:
Appeared in English as "German "Ostforschung" and anti-Semitism" in "German Scholars and Ethnic Cleansing, 1919-1945" (2005) 1-27.
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