A racial triangle: physical anthropology and race theories between Germans, Jews and Poles

Górny, Maciej

doi:10.1080/13507486.2018.1439891

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“…Indeed, nineteenth-century German historians and geographers described the East, especially Poland and Russia, as a "Slavic sea" that threatened to engulf the small, ethnically German enclaves that existed outside of the German empire. 41 As a people, the Slavs were said to be unmanly, undisciplined, and prone to outbursts of emotion that stemmed from their "Asiatic" origins. 42 Given the dominant German colonial view of the Slavic East, it is not surprising that German soldiers frequently described Slavs as Black men masquerading in white skin.…”

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The Pale Death: Poison Gas and German Racial Exceptionalism, 1915–1945

Thompson

2021

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In April of 1915, the German-Jewish chemist Fritz Haber supervised the first deployment of industrialized chemical weapons against French colonial troops. The uncertain nature of the attack, both in its execution and outcome, led many German military men to question the controllability of poison gas. Over the next three decades, Germans would continue this line of inquiry, as aero-chemical attacks appeared increasingly imminent. This article narrates the German search for control over chemical weapons between the world wars, revealing the ways in which interwar techno-nationalists tied the mastery of poison gas to ethno-racial definitions of Germanness. Under the Nazis, leaders in civilian aero-chemical defense picked up this interwar thread and promoted a dangerous embrace of gas that would supposedly cull the technically superior Germans from other lesser races. Although this vision of a chemically saturated world did not suffuse German society, such logic did play out in the gas chambers of the Holocaust.

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The Pale Death: Poison Gas and German Racial Exceptionalism, 1915–1945

Thompson

2021

Cent Eur Hist

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Visual Stereotypes of Tatars in the Finnish Press from the 1880s to the 1910s

Elmgren

2020

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Visual stereotypes constitute a set of tropes through which the Other is described and depicted to anaudience, who perhaps never will encounter the individuals that those tropes purport to represent.Upon the arrival of Muslim Tatar traders in Finland in the late nineteenth century, newspapers andsatirical journals utilized visual stereotypes to identify the new arrivals and draw demarcation linesbetween them and what was considered “Finnish”. The Tatars arrived during a time of tension inthe relationship between the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland and the Russian Empire, withthe Finnish intelligentsia divided along political and language lines. Stereotypical images of Tatarpedlars were used as insults against political opponents within Finland and as covert criticism ofthe policies of the Russian Empire. Stereotypes about ethnic and religious minorities like the Tatarsfulfilled a political need for substitute enemy images; after Finland became independent in 1917,these visual stereotypes almost disappeared.

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A racial triangle: physical anthropology and race theories between Germans, Jews and Poles

Cited by 2 publications

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The Pale Death: Poison Gas and German Racial Exceptionalism, 1915–1945

The Pale Death: Poison Gas and German Racial Exceptionalism, 1915–1945

Visual Stereotypes of Tatars in the Finnish Press from the 1880s to the 1910s

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