The Racial State: Germany, 1933-1945

Geoffrey J. Giles, Michael Burleigh, Wolfgang Wippermann

German Studies Review · 1996 · 181 citations · 0 references

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List of illustrations Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction: why another book on the Third Reich? Part I. The Setting: 1. How modern, German, and totalitarian was the Third Reich? Some major historiographical controversies 2. Barbarous utopias: racial idealogies in Germany 3. Barbarism institutionalised: racism as state policy Part II. The 'Purification' Of The Body Of The Nation: 4. The persecution of the Jews 5. The persecution of Sinti and Roma, and other ethnic minorities 6. The persecution of the 'hereditarily ill', the 'asocial', and homosexuals Part III. The Formation Of The 'National Community': 7. Youth in the Third Reich 8. Women in the Third Reich 9. Men in the Third Reich Conclusion: National Socialist racial and social policy Notes Bibliographical essay Index.