Germany Turns Eastwards: A Study of Ostforschung in the Third Reich

by Michael Burleigh

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A study of how relations between the Nazi regime & contemporary scholarly experts on eastern Europe eventually set an entire academic discipline on a path to biological racism through Nazi manipulation.

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This title combines history and the analysis of particular intitutions to show the relations between the Nazi regime and contemporary scholarly experts on eastern Europe, which eventually put an entire academic discipline on a path which led to biological racism and manipulation under the Nazis.

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Michael Burleigh, as of the fall of 2000, is a professor of history at Washington and Lee University. He is the author of six previous books on Germany, including Death and Deliverance and Ethics and Extermination. (Bowker Author Biography)

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Germany Turns Eastwards: A Study of Ostforschung in the Third Reich

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Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
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303.4Society, government, & cultureSocial sciences, sociology & anthropologySocial processesSocial change
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DJK36 .G3 .B87History of Europe, Asia, Africa and OceaniaEastern Europe (General)History of Eastern Europe (General)History
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