Among the theses of Mein Kampf is the idea that history is the result of a struggle that favours the fittest races.
The articles included in the monograph ‘Science, race and Nazism’ explore the ideological roots of National Socialism.
Dr. Hans Beutelspacher toyed with monstrous behaviour during World War II, before returning just as effortlessly to his «human» and even benevolent state, later developing a prominent career in the field of soil biochemistry.
We speak with British author and journalist Angela Saini about her latest book, Superior: the return of race science.
Poland would become the laboratory for an inhumane colonisation plan, the Generalplan Ost, which involved replacement of the non-Aryan population with Germanic farmers.
The concept of «blood and soil» as a historical determinant could be found in Termer’s work ten years before the Nazis used it as their state’s official ideology.
In a Germany with widespread and growing anti-Semitism, and later with the rise of Nazism, Albert Einstein’s physics faced hostility and was attacked on racial grounds.
Academic life in Vienna was hit harder by National Socialism than anywhere else in Germany, due to the high numbers of scientists of Jewish origins.
This monograph seeks precisely to show the level of involvement of the German academic world with Nazi postulates.
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