Images - Racial Politics

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11.	Comparison of Daily Living Costs for an Individual with a Hereditary Disease and for a Healthy Family (from the Slide Series "Blood and Soil") (c. 1935) National Socialist population policy strove to "upbreed" the German national community [Volksgemeinschaft] through state-directed racial hygiene. The regime practiced so-called positive eugenics....
12.	Lessons in Racial Politics at a Hitler Youth Leadership School (c. 1935) During the Nazi regime, school instruction focused primarily on the political indoctrination and physical education of youth. National Socialist elite schools concentrated on communicating the National....
13.	National Socialist Racial Science: Comparison of the "Nordic" and "Negroid" Races (from the Slide Series "Blood and Soil") (c. 1935) The racist worldview of the National Socialists was all-encompassing. It was based on a synthesis of biological determinism and Social Darwinism, according to which all human characteristics and....
14.	National Socialist Racial Science: Comparison of an "Aryan" and a "Non-Aryan" Head (from the Slide Series "Blood and Soil") (c. 1935) The racist worldview of the National Socialists was all-encompassing. It was based on a synthesis of biological determinism and Social Darwinism, according to which all human characteristics and....
15.	National Socialist Racial Science: Color Palettes for Eye-Color Classification (1937) Rudolf Heß declared that National Socialism involved "applied racial science." In the Third Reich, the alleged quality of an individual's racial and hereditary properties was supposed to determine....
16.	"The Nazi State Protects the German People from Vermin through its Criminal Code and through its Racial Legislation against the Reproduction of Inferiors" (Nazi Publication, 1937) The Nazi regime sought total social and racial standardization. As this 1937 propaganda publication shows, the state discrimination against racially, socially, politically, and medically "inferior"....
17.	Viennese Jews are Forced to Scour the Streets (March/April 1938) The annexation of Austria was accompanied by the rapid "coordination" [Gleichschaltung] of....
18.	Professor Robert Ritter, Head of the Racial Hygiene Research Center at the Reich Bureau for Health, Collects Data from Gypsies with the Help of the Police (1938) In the National Socialist conception of race, the Roma and Sinti (Gypsies) had a special paradoxical status. Although Gypsies had come from India and were thus considered more “Aryan” than even the....
19.	Polish Jews Assemble in the Center of Nuremberg for Evacuation to the Polish Border (October 28, 1938) For Hitler, the end goal of National Socialist policy was the removal of the Jews from the “body of the German populace.” In the mid-1930s, the SD [Security Service or Sicherheitsdienst] under....
20.	Herschel Grynszpan, Apprehended Shortly after Assassinating Ernst von Rath, the Legation Secretary of the German Embassy in Paris (November 7, 1938) The family of seventeen-year-old Herschel Grynszpan (also written as "Grünspan" in German) was caught up in the brutal deporations....
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