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Physical Anthropology and Nazi Population Policy

Physical Anthropology and Nazi Population Policy

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May 13, 2019
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Abstract

National Socialist population policy has been traced to the demographic pessimism of midcentury social science and more generally to the high modern search for a rational order by the German technocracy. We argue that the high modern search for a rational order extended to Nazi racial policy. Although German raciology (Rassenkunde­) failed to pr…

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