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Author Mees, Bernard (Bernard Thomas), author.

Title The science of the swastika / Bernard Mees.

Publication Info. New York : Central European University Press, 2008.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 363 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : Issues concerning the Teutons -- The tradition of völkisch Germanism -- History and intuition -- The origins of ideographic studies -- Germanic resurgence -- National socialism and antiquity -- Intellectual prehistory -- Academic responses -- The expansion of the Ahnenerbe -- Into the academy -- Epilogue, aftermath -- Conclusion : The secret garden.
Summary The first theoretically informed study of the relationship between an academic discipline and what the Nazis termed their Weltanschauung. The first study of Sinnbildforschung, German ideograph or swastika studies, though more broadly it tells the tale of the development of German antiquarian studies (ancient Germanic history, archaeology, anthropology, folklore, historical linguistics and philology) under the influence of radical right wing politics, and the contemporary construction of 'Germanicness' and its role in Nazi thought. The swastika and similar symbols were employed by the ancestors of the modern day Germans. As these had also become emblematic symbols of the forces of German reaction, Sinnbildforschung became intrinsically connected with the National Socialist regime after 1933 and disappeared along with the Third Reich in 1945. With the Nazi seizure of power, ideographic studies became directly supported by the state. In 1935 an organization was founded within the SS to further its study, the SS-Ahnenerbe. Most infamous as the organ through which medical experiments were arranged to be performed on the inmates of concentration camps, the Ahnenerbe was founded as a historical research institution before it expanded its horizons to the physical sciences.
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Subject Swastikas.
Swastikas.
Symbolism (Psychology)
Symbolism (Psychology)
National socialism.
National socialism.
Nationalism -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Nationalism.
Germany.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Mees, Bernard (Bernard Thomas). Science of the swastika. New York : Central European University Press, 2008 9789639776180 9639776181 (DLC) 2008025537 (OCoLC)182563630
ISBN 9781435665088 (electronic book)
1435665082 (electronic book)
1283248093
9781283248099
9639776181
9789639776180