|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
The Nazi Connection
und über 1 Million weitere Bücher verfügbar für Amazon Kindle .
Erfahren Sie mehr
| ||||||||||||||||||||
Produktinformation
|
Mehr über den Autor
Entdecken Sie Bücher, lesen Sie über Autoren und mehr
› Besuchen Sie die Seite von Stefan Kühl auf Amazon
› Besuchen Sie die Seite von Stefan Kühl auf Amazon
Produktbeschreibungen
From Kirkus Reviews
Narrowly focused yet chillingly effective indictment of the American scientists and social theorists who inspired and applauded Nazi racist ideology. Eugenics--part science, part twisted Social Darwinism, according to German sociologist Khl--was first defined in 1883 by Francis Galton as the ``science of improving the stock''--a science that went on to give academic respectability to the earliest expressions of Nazi racism. Insisting that many of the assumptions underlying Nazi thought were ``by no means limited to German scientists,'' the author skillfully dismantles postwar attempts to marginalize the activities of the worldwide eugenics establishment, particularly in the US. With European ties frayed post-WW I, America became the main scientific reference point for German theorists seeking international legitimacy: it unfortunately proved an influential model, not only intellectually but politically. A 1907 Indiana law permitting the sterilization of the mentally handicapped long predated Germany's 1933 Law on Preventing Hereditarily Ill Progeny, and the 1924 American Immigration Restriction Act was later praised by the future Fhrer in Mein Kampf. Meanwhile, US sponsors--including the Rockefeller Foundation and Jewish philanthropist James Loeb--helped fund major eugenics institutes in Germany. In turn, many of these sought greater recognition by offering honorary degrees to leading US eugenicists- -two of whom, Leon Whitney and Madison Grant, are glimpsed here proudly comparing appreciative letters from Hitler. A brief reference to a resurgence of scientific racism in today's academia adds an especially pertinent cautionary note. More a monograph than a fully realized history but, still, a well-documented revisionist rebuke to those who would isolate Nazism as a unique phenomenon. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
-- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
Pressestimmen
A narrow but important study of the institutional, ideological and personal connections between the eugenic programmes of the two nations, The Nazi Connection is the most detailed book available on this disturbing chapter in American-German relations. Journal of American Studies ... a sobering and thoroughly documented history of the links between the Nazi eugenic programme and American eugenic science and legislation. Journal of American Studies
In diesem Buch
(Mehr dazu)
Einleitungssatz
The late 1980s witnessed a revival of public interest in scientific racism on North American campuses. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
Buchdeckel | Copyright | Inhaltsverzeichnis | Auszug | Stichwortverzeichnis
The late 1980s witnessed a revival of public interest in scientific racism on North American campuses. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
Mehr entdecken
Wortanzeiger
Ausgewählte Seiten ansehenWortanzeiger
Buchdeckel | Copyright | Inhaltsverzeichnis | Auszug | Stichwortverzeichnis
Tags(Was ist das?)Bei einem Tag handelt es sich um ein Schlagwort, das zum Produkt passt.
Tags erleichtern allen Kunden die Suche und die Sortierung ihrer Lieblingsprodukte. |
Kundenrezensionen
Es gibt noch keine Kundenrezensionen auf Amazon.de
5 Sterne
4 Sterne
3 Sterne
2 Sterne
1 Sterne
Die hilfreichsten Kundenrezensionen auf Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com:
2 Rezensionen
17 von 28 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Interesting Book
27. Februar 2005
Format:Taschenbuch
This is a valuable book that explores the role of American intellectual and psuedo-scientific policies and how the played an important role in the maturation of Nazi Germany. A must read.
4 von 9 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Problem Focus
10. April 2011
Format:Taschenbuch
I find the focus of this book and other recent books that are primarily focused on the eugenics movement in the U.S. as being the cause of World War Two Germany's extermination policy, problematic. The author stated that Germany dominated the eugenics movement early on and was the first to hold an international conference on it before World War One. He also stated that he worked in a German facility for the handicapped that claimed to have not harmed the handicapped during World War Two, something that later research of his led him to doubt. Although the U.S, as did other countries have laws regarding sterilization of the handicapped, that could be applied, in fact they rarely were. The laws and attitudes in the U.S. that led to this are problematic, however they have been covered before and were fully public then and since. HOwever, what was missing in the author's book that was deeply disturbing, was any mention of what the German government was engaged in during World War Two. During World War Two, the German government exterminated approximately 800,000 handicapped Europeans. This is something that has received so little attention that it is disturbing that this was another book that portrayed the US as the "cause of all of Germany's actions" rather than Germany itself and a book and author who might have shed some light on why Germany and German institutions secretly exterminated hundreds of thousands of people because they were handicapped. As well it could have been a book, given the author's background, that explored why both the German government and institutions that might have been culpable, have been so unwilling to be open and honest about their actons in World War Two. Instead it's just another book that serves not to explain how and why the German government in World War Two turned to exterminating human beings for no reason at all.
Waren diese Rezensionen hilfreich?
Wir wollen von Ihnen hören.
Kunden diskutieren
|
Das Forum zu diesem Produkt
Fragen stellen, Meinungen austauschen, Einblicke gewinnen Aktive Diskussionen in ähnlichen Foren
Kundendiskussionen durchsuchen
|
Ähnliche Foren
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lieblingslisten
Ähnliche Artikel finden
- Fremdsprachige Bücher > Fachbücher > Evolution > Genetik
- Fremdsprachige Bücher > Geschichte > Europa > Deutschland
- Fremdsprachige Bücher > Sachbücher > Sozialwissenschaften > Besondere Gruppen > Minderheitenstudien
- Fremdsprachige Bücher > Sachbücher > Sozialwissenschaften > Diskriminierung & Rassismus
- Fremdsprachige Bücher > Sachbücher > Sozialwissenschaften > Soziologie
Anhand des Sachgebietes nach ähnlichen Produkten suchen:
Ihr Kommentar
Möchten Sie die Produktinformationen aktualisieren oder Feedback zu den Produktabbildungen geben?
|
