Race and the Third Reich: Linguistics, Racial Anthropology and Genetics in the Dialectic of Volk

by Christopher Hutton and Christopher M. Hutton

Book Overview

Race and the Third Reich aims to set out the key concepts, debates and controversies that marked the academic study of race in Nazi Germany. It looks in particular at the discipline of racial anthropology and its relationship to linguistics and human biology.

Christopher Hutton identifies the central figures involved in the study of race during the Nazi regime, and traces continuities and discontinuities between Nazism and the study of human...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745631770
• ISBN13: 9780745631776
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.0"