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The Nazi Ancestral Proof: Genealogy, Racial Science, and the Final Solution
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The Nazi Ancestral Proof: Genealogy, Racial Science, and the Final Solution Hardcover - 2007

by Eric Ehrenreich


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How could Germans, inhabitants of the most scientifically advanced nation in the world in the early 20th century, have espoused the inherently unscientific racist doctrines put forward by the Nazi leadership? Eric Ehrenreich traces the widespread acceptance of Nazi policies requiring German individuals to prove their Aryan ancestry to the popularity of ideas about eugenics and racial science that were advanced in the late Imperial and Weimar periods by practitioners of genealogy and eugenics. After the enactment of Nazi racial laws in the 1930s, the Reich Genealogical Authority, employing professional genealogists, became the providers and arbiters of the ancestral proof. This is the first detailed study of the operation of the ancestral proof in the Third Reich and the link between Nazi racism and earlier German genealogical practices. The widespread acceptance of this racist ideology by ordinary Germans helped create the conditions for the Final Solution.

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  • Title The Nazi Ancestral Proof: Genealogy, Racial Science, and the Final Solution
  • Author Eric Ehrenreich
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First printing
  • Pages 264
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Indiana University Press, Bloomington
  • Date 2007-10-10
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780253349453 / 0253349451
  • Weight 1.27 lbs (0.58 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.4 x 6.54 x 0.95 in (23.88 x 16.61 x 2.41 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1930's
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Cultural Region: Germany
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Topical: Holocaust
  • Library of Congress subjects Germany - Politics and government - 1933-1945, Germany - Politics and government - 1918-1933
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.531

About the author

Eric Ehrenreich holds a law degree from the University of California, Davis, and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Wisconsin. He was Douglas and Carol Cohen Postdoctoral Fellow at the U.S. Holocaust Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. He currently practices law in Washington, D.C.

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