Vordenker der Vernichtung: Auschwitz und die Deutschen Plane fur Eine Neue Europaische Ordnung.

Sydnor, Charles W.; Aly, Gotz; Heim, Susanne

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“…Although the IDO promised excellent working conditions for scientists (cf. Aly, Heim 2004: 196), director Wilhelm Coblitz (1906-1945 was not very successful in recruiting renowned researchers (cf. Haar, Fahlbusch 2017: 1407, therefore young, mostly inexperienced junior scientists (and National Socialist Party [NSDAP] members) were employed.…”

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“The most ideal form of scientific collaboration”: Applied racial psychology at the Institut für Deutsche Ostarbeit in Kraków (1942)

GottschaLL

2022

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In August 1942, anthropologist Elfriede Fliethmann and psychologist Ferdinand Carspecken tried various standardized psychological tests during a field examination in the Southern Polish town of Witów. Sources suggest that subsequent studies were intended to provide a “scientific” justification for the regime’s ethnic reorganization plans, similarly to a study in the Reichsgau Wartheland by psychologist Rudolf Hippius in the same summer. By employing a comparative mode of enquiry, the case study presented here gives a rare insight into then newly established scientific field: on the interface between anthropology and psychology, the concept of Rassenpsychologie (racial psychology) aimed to close the proclaimed gap between the natural sciences and humanities. Due to its fundamental conception the field was thus predestined to serve the Nazi regime. Investigating specific research practices of the (junior) scientists involved helps us under- stand further development of the concept of race, and thus the foundation of National Socialist ideology.

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“The most ideal form of scientific collaboration”: Applied racial psychology at the Institut für Deutsche Ostarbeit in Kraków (1942)

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2022

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Soziobiologische Kriegführung? Der Generalplan Ost

Schleiermacher

1996

Ber Wissenschaftsgesch

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In studying the genesis of 'Generalplan Ost' one can elucidate the alliance of academic research and military expansion in Nazi Germany in a unique way. By 'Generalplan Ost' we understand the total German planning effort in transforming the territories of Poland, the Baltic republics and Soviet Union, which were occupied since the beginning of World War II. In this scientists were not only provided with ample opportunities for research by the National Socialist government, but the Nazi policy of occupation created the preconditions necessary for putting theoretical models into practice. this was done in complete disregard of pre-existing structures in population, settlement, society, economy, and patterns of traffic. The principal aim consisted in the total transformation of the envisaged Eastern European sphere and the implantation of a new National Socialist social order style in Eastern Europe. Scientific planning not only implied a declaration of war against the very people living in the geographic sphere covered by the plan, but presupposed the existence of war in order to put the plan into practice. In a rare mixture of social science, geography and biology, instruments of science made possible and provoked the social selection and deportation of human beings as well as attempts at 'Germanization' and 'Umvolkung'. It is a well known fact, that deportation and extermination became a brutal reality as an intrinsic ingredient of these planning efforts.

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Heim¹

2001

Remembering for the Future

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Vordenker der Vernichtung: Auschwitz und die Deutschen Plane fur Eine Neue Europaische Ordnung.

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“The most ideal form of scientific collaboration”: Applied racial psychology at the Institut für Deutsche Ostarbeit in Kraków (1942)

“The most ideal form of scientific collaboration”: Applied racial psychology at the Institut für Deutsche Ostarbeit in Kraków (1942)

Soziobiologische Kriegführung? Der Generalplan Ost

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